Comments on: “Pro-Life” Activist Again Seeks to Increase the Abortion Rate

By: bmc90

bmc90 — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 01:32:01 +0000

Julie, there were several very ambivlant parents in my family, too. Their kids have been in jail, bounced out of the military, teen mothers, and one is living with a drug dealer. One mother commited suicide a few years ago. I can’t help but think that knowing you f-d up as a mother would take you at least a few steps in the direction of blowing your brains out with your dad’s own gun. In their bathroom. Anyway, no good comes of reluctant parenting.

By: Julie

Julie — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 23:49:33 +0000

I agree Marian. My grandmother had 12 children due to non use of contraception (she’s devoutly catholic) and they were all horribly abused. My feelings are that she didn’t want most of them, but felt like she had no choice. She certainly didn’t have them because of her great love of children. And kids who aren’t wanted grow up to realize it. My mother didn’t want my two youngest sisters, she had them to make my dad happy. Now they are 11 and 10 and she admits she regrets having them. She really doesn’t do anything with them and the way she treats them is worlds different than how she treated the oldest three of us (now 25, 22 and 19 respectively). It’s really remarkable how much of a difference there is and the only difference is that we were actively wanted and tried for and they were forced on her.

By: Casey

Casey — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:01:42 +0000

If contraception is not the answer, what’s the question?

“How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?”

By: Kaethe

Kaethe — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:57:19 +0000

In light of that reality, it has also been my experience that nothing in this life happens by accident.

Anyone who writes this sentence should receive an automatic F. Nothing? Then does God get all the blame? And can he be sued for damages?

The future is currently attending grade school and high school in your community. How are you going to make sure that this is a bright, zestful, family-oriented future?

Well, I’m in favor of recognizing all families as valid, regardless of their ages, genders and/or orientations, and bloodlines. I’m also in favor of universal health care and increased (equalized) funding to public schools and more tuition grants to send more high school students on to college. I’m also in favor of talking about sex and gender to kids (early and often), making sure they can achieve their own desires safely.

But that’s just me.

By: bmc90

bmc90 — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:03:10 +0000

My GYN told me that the various herpes viruses are getting fairly acrobatic, that the one that causes cold sores can end up causing genital herpes because of oral sex. One quarter of the U.S. adult population has genital herpes and 90% of them don’t know it. That statistic alone should be enough for anyone to realize they have to be careful, even if they are not consorting with strangers. A friend of mine got genital herpes from an architect after a 2 year relationship and another got it from her husband, after having had 2 children. She had never seen him have an outbreak, but went into his medicine cabinent and found the perscription for the supressive therapy, so he had it, knew it, and not tell her so she could be careful. But by then of course they had 2 kids. Point is, if you stick to the facts, mam, there’s plenty of scary stuff out there without hyperbole or getting all apopolyptic about it. People forget that syphillis was ravaging society for centuries among the upper classes and entire societies long before any hippies started practicing free love in their VW vans. Our current culture is not some shocking, new decay of society. At best, it is an effort to face and address somewhat more openly age-old problems through science.

By: Sylvs

Sylvs — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 02:15:49 +0000

All of the above are great theories, but I just think the woman’s a wench. She has to preach and she wants – no NEEDS to be heard in a new way. A way that will set her apart from the other wenches. Hence, this whole “Contraception is not the answer.”

A thousand bucks says she doesn’t even know what the question is….

By: Starfoxy

Starfoxy — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 04:32:02 +0000

There is a possibility that she is simply less fertile than regular women. In which case it would be pretty likely that in her struggles to get and stay pregnant she may have built up a lot of anger at women who use BC to actively avoid what she so desperately wanted.
Or she could have been using the rhythym method, which we all know isn’t a form of birth control since it doesn’t use chemicals and his highly unreliable.

By: Raincitygirl

Raincitygirl — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 04:05:01 +0000

I betcha dear Judie is one of those anti-contraceptive types who only saw the light after she had a tubal ligation or a hysterectomy. Now she can force other people to do what she won’t, because she can’t.

By: Helen H

Helen H — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 03:08:39 +0000

As Judy has 9 grandchildren, I’m asuming she’s done with the having babies thing at 3. Unless she spaced them out as well as my mother did (her 2 birthed children, me and my youngest brother, are 19 years apart), I’d bet her youngsters are using the evil, too.

By: ema

ema — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 03:02:22 +0000

I just have to do this: If contraception is not the answer, what’s the question?

And this: [what ?] increased risk of premature death from pulmonary embolism and stroke (known to be side effects of the pill [and pregnancy].