PS: The point here is NOT that poor people shouldn't have kids, it's that no one should be having kids without having the basics of childcare covered, which necessitates widespread systemic, societal, and economic change so that no parent needs to worry about those basics, and kids can grow up in secure, healthy environments. I completely forgot to mention this when I originally posted it, and that's my bad.
One way or the other isn't that the goal? We should lift people out of poverty right? Why should poverty persist?
We absolutely should but that's a conversation for a future-minded community.