This is outrageous and it's crazy that it's allowed.  I've always thought that female teens around the age of 13 should be required to have a birth control implant that could only be removed after they were eighteen, married and had passed both a parenting license and financial screening to prove they were prepared to become a parent.  I'm crazy old fashioned in wanting children to have a mother and a father.  Traditional families aren't perfect but they are so much better than the alternatives.  Mandatory birth control would be wonderful. No more manipulation by women who trap men into supporting children they did not want in the first place. My son just turned thirty and is engaged to a delightful lady. And until now I have pretty much lived in fear that past girlfriends would get pregnant in order to snare him. This shouldn't be anyone's worry.  Children are not easy to raise properly. Only the ones who are truly wanted should be had. I'm not opposed to welfare in that sometimes bad things happen and as a compassionate society we should care about our people. But that is so far from what actually happens. Imagine a responsible young married couple with two kids. One dies or is genuinely injured. I want to help that family. An irresponsible woman who.chooses or allows herself to pop out two kids and has no ability to support them?  No.  I don't want to finance her life.  And it would take very little time for these women to stop having kids if they knew the government wasn't going to support them.