This woman is a complete moron. Her name is Sherri Shepherd and she's on a show called The View. She is a mother of at least one and I personally, strongly believe she is too stupid to have children.

This woman hasn't ever "thought about" whether or not the Earth is flat? However, she's certain that evolution doesn't exist. This brain dead moron is raising a human. A human who we can only hope won't be as stupid as she is.

*Here's a longer clip... she gets stupider.

Question For Debate:

Is it unreasonable to require some sort of competence to have children?

If we should be so fortunate to have a constitutional convention to adopt an update to the Bill of Rights, one of those rights should be a right to privacy. Each person's reproduction should be part of the right to privacy.

I do not think there should be a competency test. However, anyone who can not support their own children and needs assistance from government should be considered incompetent. There should be a means to curtail their reproduction as a requirement to receive assistance.

Sherri Shepherd does not sound like a person who is thinking much. I would not choose her to be my partner to mingle genes. But, she has a job and I assume she is supporting her own family. Government should not interfere in her life. And she should be protected by a constitutional amendment.

Is it unreasonable to require some sort of competence to have children?

Yes. How are you going to stop sweaty teenagers, or anybody else for that matter, from copulating?

Last time I checked, there were no intelligence requirements for people to do that. If anything, our cerebral functions are in the "off" position when we just let the hormones do what comes naturally.

And what are we going to do when people of limited education and/or intellect test positive for pregnancy? Require abortions? Didn't that once fall under the category of eugenics?

From what I can tell, this woman is a Christian fundamentalist or evangelical who said some stupid things on "The View". She managed to entertain or at least provoke some thought among the viewers, and that is probably why she is on the show. Stupidity is entertaining to some people, hence the "Jaywalk All-Stars" on the Tonight Show.

As long as Sherri can work, pay the bills, keep her kid clean and fed and out of trouble, what business is it of ours that she "never thought" about whether the earth was flat or round?

But if you'd like, I am sure that someone can generate a questionnaire on a prospective bed partner's views on evolution, astronomy and other scientific subjects before deciding to "get it on..."
Seems a little geeky, though...

It seems to me that the prudent thing to do is to get to know the person before getting to "know" them in the Biblical sense...

Is it unreasonable to require some sort of competence to have children?

Yes.

It is not at all unreasonable to hope that people who reproduce have a minimal level of competence. There is very little that can be done to enforce this, short of a totalitarian society. The best we can do is to use education to strongly promote responsible sexual behavior; to provide safe, effective, and affordable contraception; and to encourage effective parenting. In cases of abuse and neglect, of course, the state has the responsibility to step in, and remove the children from the parent if necessary. This is a far cry, however, from preventing people from having children in the first place.

The only circumstance in which I can see any kind of justification for mandatory sterilization would be for those unfortunate persons who are severely mentally incapacitated. In such cases, it is an act of mercy to ensure that someone who will always have the mind of an infant will not reproduce.

I know nothing about Ms. Shepherd, but I see no evidence at all that she is a truly incompetent parent.

Yes.

It just wouldn't work. Illegal births clinics would pop up everywhere...

Is it unreasonable to require some sort of competence to have children?

Well, it IS unreasonable- because, as we know, goverment will play favorites, it will be abused, and, still, we will have stupid poeple continue to breed, not based on merit- but based on who they know.

I mean- if it were up to me, anyone that voted for GW TWICE would fall under the category, "too stupid to breed"

Pretty much anybody that believes that somehow, the Canadian health care system is not as good as the US system

Anyone that quotes Rush Limbaugh and believes it.

Did I mention those dumb enough to vote for GW TWICE?

Question For Debate:

Is it unreasonable to require some sort of competence to have children?


Yes. This nation is about maximum freedom. This would be a wholly untenable encroachment of our freedom.

I'd love to see them try to come up with a way to keep people from "fornication under consent of the king"-ing around and ending up with messed up kids and parents that screwed them up in the first place. It's not ethical, no, but interesting.
Reminds me a bit of 1984...

Is it unreasonable to require some sort of competence to have children?

Yes, it is unreasonable. It is not unreasonable however to lift the bar of what is considered competent parenting once the children are here. If the folks don't make the grade, they lose the children.

OH COME ON!!!

You can't be THIS stupid AND be a good parent!

She doesn't "get this BC thing" and insists Jesus "came first"?

GUUUH - flipping MORON

Hahaha, Baphomets. It's the View.

You have to expect them to find stupid people as guests so the hosts (BaBa WaWa and Rosie O'Dumbell) can finally look smart.

Except for that Elisabeth Hasselbeck. Raooowwwllll!