Given recent conflict over the merits of the massive so-called stimulus bill -- especially provisions to include contraception -- it's more important than ever to make the case for babies. Even in an economic downturn. Of course, so is making the case for parents taking responsibility for those babies once they're born. Frank Pastore's commentary in Crosswalk gets it wrong. He writes:

But something is wrong, very wrong, when we're growing so many citizens who don't even try to pay their own way, who willfully choose to take limited resources away from deserving others, and who live in such a way that they just assume it's someone else's responsibility to take care of them.

Babies aren't the problem. Government programs that displace fathers and encourage promiscuity and irresponsibility are.