Comments on: …but I thought they were selfish sluts

By: “Pro-Life” Myth No. 3: Pro-choicers hate babies! « The Radical Notion

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:39:56 +0000

[...] …But I Thought They Were Selfish Sluts! [...]

By: Roxie

Roxie — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:45:42 +0000

I was watching television last night and there was (i think it was the travel channel) a marathon on about the people of the Bunlap tribe. It was very interesting.

They’re a midsized tribe living on an Island and they get everything they need from that Island. Well, Moses (one of the members they follow around) had a wife and 3 children. The woman found out she was pregnant. Both she & Moses realized that they could not take care of the baby and their other 3 children.

So, her husband went into the woods and made a drink out of plant and tree bark and water to cause her to miscarry. It worked and she did.

By: Because kids are important « Modus dopens

Because kids are important « Modus dopens — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:42:00 +0000

[...] At some point I will probably want to have kids of my own. And if/when I do, I want to be in a position such that I can provide for them properly, and be as good a parent as possible. I take kids seriously, and in my experience, so do the vast majority of women. Seriously enough to say “I want the best for my kids, and that means a good mother capable of looking after kids.” And because I take kids that seriously, there are probably going to be times in my life when I’m not going to be in a position that I consider to be an acceptable one for raising a child. In those situations, having a child would be irresponsible both for the child and for me, if I didn’t have the resources to look after me or the kid. So it’s really no surprise that this study found that concern for future and existing children is a key reason given by women as a reason for having an abortion (hat tip: Feministe). [...]

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:52:09 +0000

RA, there is a big difference between a person and a fetus. Please take the time to educate yourself before opening your foolish mouth.

By: Tapetum

Tapetum — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:48:25 +0000

RA – except for the minor fact that a born infant can be taken care of by pretty much any other competant adult. Hence the reason infant-surrender laws work, by giving desperate new mothers a place where they can leave their babies for someone else to take care of. Unless you really think that babies abandoned at fire stations should be euthanized because their mothers aren’t up to the job. It’s a little different from being not up to the job that nobody else can possibly do. If you could have pregnancy-surrender laws, where desperate pregnant women could go to transfer their pregnancy to someone else who wanted to be pregnant, I suspect abortion would plummet. Provided you had sufficient women who wanted to be pregnant with the kinds of babies available.

By: Women Who Have Abortions Are Mothers [Mike the Mad Biologist] | NewAge.org

Women Who Have Abortions Are Mothers [Mike the Mad Biologist] | NewAge.org — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:00:15 +0000

[...] already have children. So much for the ‘irresponsible slut’ propaganda. By way of Jill at Feministe, I found this Guttmacher Institute report (italics [...]

By: Mike the Mad Biologist

Mike the Mad Biologist — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:04:10 +0000

Women Who Have Abortions Are Mothers…

61% of women who have abortions already have children. So much for the ‘irresponsible slut’ propaganda….

By: wolfgang

wolfgang — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:45:15 +0000

RA- huh? Why wouldn’t a woman go for the painless euthanasia of her offspring when she found out she was pregnant, instead of waiting until she’d gone through 9 months of morning sickness and all the other physical, emotional and financial stress of pregnancy and birth? Why wait until the fetus is fully developed, able to survive outside the womb, and sensitive to neglect and pain? Sorry, despite what the billboards say, a fetus is NOT a baby.

By: JackGoff

JackGoff — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:15:33 +0000

Then again, maybe you aren’t pretending.

By: JackGoff

JackGoff — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:14:52 +0000

RA, abortion is imminently preferable to any disingenuous alternatives involving infanticide you and your moronic ideological counterparts can come up with. Abortion doesn’t deal with a born human, and that’s the point. You think a person who can’t afford another child will pay for everything that comes with a pregnancy? I get your tongue-in-cheek horseshit with “can’t”, but seriously, STFU if you are going to pretend to be an idiot.