The headline is a single-sentence paragraph from a report in Guardian:
The mothers who regret having kids: ‘I wished I were holding a cat and not a baby’
JD Vance, and Matt Birk hide a bit from this truth. There are those families.
Mr. Birk gives an interview. What Mr. Birk needs to better understand, nobody is telling him what to do, while he wants to have a say in other family's lives.
He does not recognize himself - his policy - as intrusive. Minding his own business seems fine with him, and it is fine with me. I just feel his family is the limiting scope of his having any valid opinion on how everybody else should be constrained to live. Coerced to live one way over another is bad enough. Constrained, by on-the-book laws is a step too far, for a freedom loving decision maker.
The concept of "family planning" entails a plan. To have a plan, a planning ability, you need a choice. Or else it's somebody else's plan, not yours.