Legal scholar Linda McClain highlights the cultural tendency in American society to view procreation choices within the realms of personal responsibility rather than unfettered individual rights. This cultural view corresponds with a shift in law and public policy, demonstrated by the Bush government’s premise to promote marriage and two-parent families.
“In the rhetoric of irresponsibility, reproductive behaviors and choices which are deemed irresponsible serve as an indicator of moral decline, social breakdown, and pathology” (Deterring Irresponsible Reproduction through Welfare Reform, McClain 1996).
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