(Prolifer)ations 4-02-09
by Bernadette P.
Single, pregnant and panicked starts off well enough, looking at the complex dynamics that lead smart, well-educated 20-something women to get cavalier about their birth control. But it ends with beating the “more contraceptives education” drum – completely dismissing out of hand the dynamics of relationships….
The article portrays pregnancy as an unwanted illness like cancer, and the woman in the story is devastated when she realizes she is pregnant. (A devoted vegan who is training for a marathon can clearly not be bothered with a gift like a baby!)
The article shows a “sidebar courtesy of Planned Parenthood” with statements like:
“Watch for interactions.” [Not between you and other people – between other substances and the Pill.]
“Learn to love condoms.” [Again, ignoring human dynamics. One of author Robert Heinlein’s characters once dismissively characterized condoms as “making love without touching,” and it is a bizarre idea: “I love you enough to want you inside me – as long as we don’t have any actual physical contact.”]
“Find ‘the one.'” [This refers not to “the one man you want to build a family with” but rather to the Pill you take to avoid a family.]
The article is unbelievably crude and disrespectful to the nature of life and to the dignity of men and women in general.
Denver-based American Right to Life is heading the campaign. They have released a YouTube video that “shows excerpts of Coulter’s on-air radio freak-outs and calls on the acid-tongued author to apologize and retract her support for Romney.”
When a woman wishes to drop off her child, she can legally place the baby into a bassinet inside a “drop box,” a little window in the wall of the church or convent. Immediately an alarm sounds, notifying the priests/nuns that a baby has been placed there. The child promptly receives medical attention and care. The first minute of the video shows this story….
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Is the last part about Arby’s really true? If so, how incredibly pathetic that anyone would trade their child for a serving of potato wedges.
This also begs the question of what happens to the child in the interim. Do they just put the baby on top of the deep fryer or what? And who (if anyone) tends to the childs needs?
This has to be a new low.
Tell me this is all a joke.
Anyone criticize Laura Ingram yet about calling McCain’s daughter fat?
Ann Coulter has a ‘life lesson’ yet to be learned:
How to acknowledge you were or are wrong.
‘Honestly’ confessing, “I don’t know”, would be a good start.
I appreciate her sharp wit and her relentless lampooning of the lunacies of the left, but she is clearly ‘wrong’ about Mitt Romney.
Come on Ann, cowgirl up. Do the right thing.
yor bro ken
Posted by: PiP at April 2, 2009 11:20 AM
“Anyone criticize Laura Ingram yet about calling McCain’s daughter fat?”
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Actually Ms McCain acknowledged the accuracy of the observation.
She criticized Laura for stooping to ‘tacky’ comments instead of dealing with substantive issues.
But Ms McCains girth is substantial, even she does not deny that fact.
Ms McCain is not ‘fat’, she is just short for her weight.
Suggested tee shirts for Mac’s daughter:
‘I Overcame Anorexia’
‘A Waiste Is A Terrible Thing To Mind’
If we can goo and gaw about Michelle Obama’s ‘buffed’ biseps, then her asstronomically aBUNdant glutei maximi should not be neglected.
Why the buns of stealth?
yor bro ken
Actually I’m pretty sure Ms McCain told Laura to shove it.
Everyone can recognize anyone’s body issues. But pundits in general are repulsive enough to personally attack people for them. The fact that you support Laura in this or excuse her behavior is lame.
Ken, it’s so easy to make fun of Coulter’s incredibly thin figure that does nothing to help her reputation of a witch, but why bother? It’s already obvious.
ProLifeBlogs reports that some Christian radio talk-show hosts are criticizing Ann Coulter for her support of GOP member Mitt Romney, claiming that Romney is “willing to sacrifice children for your vote.”
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The peasants are getting pithy.
The sheep are baring their teeth and they are not smiling.
yor bro ken
yor bro ken
If Ms Coulter would stop smoking it might resolve her ‘boney body’ issue, but I do not know that taking on a more rounded form would do anything to reduce the sharpness and correctness of her well placed verbal barbs.
Ann of Coulter ain’t perfect as I have already stated. She has still has some growing to do.
Ms McCain finding the ideal weight will not make her any less a light weigh intellectually and/or morally.
yor bro ken
I detest it when people treat children- or other people in general- like some sort of illness. They have rights, even if the law of the land doesn’t wish to recognize them.
“Find the one:” Now I really do believe that Planned Parenthood is too vested in this- it’s a pill. Find the pill of your dreams- ridiculous. Sorry, but there’s something, well, obsessive about the way that they treat their products.
I don’t mind birth control, but sometimes when you hear Planned Parenthood talking about it like it is your absolute life…I have to question if the young woman would like things such as a career or an education or if superfluous things such as a meaningful life play second banana to a flipping pill.
She’s a size 8, which isn’t fat. Shame on any woman for talking bad about another woman’s body. Pro-choice, pro-life, can’t we all at least agree on that?
Posted by: AM at April 2, 2009 1:46 PM
“Shame on any woman for talking bad about another woman’s body.”
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I agree. shame, Shame, SHAME on you ‘women’ for talking bad about another woman’s body! (shaking finger and tapping foot imapatiently)
I wonder what ‘size’ PBHO is? He is such a ‘girly’ man.
Ms McCains political opinions are ugly!
How ugly are they?
They are so ugly they would make a freight train take a dirt road!
Ms McCains political opinions are ugly.
How ugly are they?
They are so ugly that when Ms McCain was born the doctor slapped her mother!
Ms McCains political opinions are ugly.
How ugly are they?
They are so ugly that her momma had to tie them to a pork chop to get the dogs to play with them.
yor bro ken
I find comments about McCain’s weight to be as absurdly offensive as when SoMG commented on Jill’s. I don’t think it’s appropriate to comment on another person’s body unless that person has asked for your opinion on it, or presented their body as fodder for public debate.
Do Michelle Obama’s buffed biseps qualify her for ‘body related’ commentary.
Remember the dearly departed Asitis said, “If you got it flaunt it.”‘ in respect to the First Ladies wearing sleevless apparel to exhibit her well toned arms.
Does it correlate that if you flaunt it you are inviting observation and if you are vain enough to invite observation on one body part, then other body parts are fair game for comment?
yor bro ken
Ken…what was that? Are you making fun of me or something? I really can’t tell. And if so…why? How was what I said disagreeable?
AM.
You did single out ‘women’ for talking about other women.
I was agreeing with you in a ‘female stereotype.’
I was not making fun of ‘you’, but of how you said what you said.
Women do not have a monopoly on vanity or on hyper-criticality.
Men just do it differently.
yor bro ken
I don’t care what asitis said about Michelle Obama’s arms.
As a woman, I am acutely aware of the fact that any time I allow ANYONE to see a part of my body they enjoy seeing, I am going to be accused of “flaunting it.” I used to wear baggy sweatshirts in the summer just so I could convince myself that I had “earned” the right to not be treated like a freaking piece of public property. Oh, and then it was really awesome to have comments about how I hated my femininity since I so clearly wanted to hide it from others and from myself.
I have not seen Michelle Obama wear anything most women I know wouldn’t wear. I freaking HATE my arms — I swear, everything I eat goes straight to my upper arms, and it looks weird — and *I* wear dresses similar to Obama’s sometimes. I don’t think that merely having a body, or even accepting compliments on that body, makes you public property.
Posted by: PiP at April 2, 2009 12:01 PM
Ken, it’s so easy to make fun of Coulter’s incredibly thin figure that does nothing to help her reputation of a witch, but why bother? It’s already obvious.
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Eyes closed, mind cleared of extraneous thoughts.
‘Witch’
First image that comes to mind:
Pointy hat, large caldron, large ladle, black cat, black dress, wart(s), long pointy nose.
Yeah, tall for her weight, is part of my mental image of a witch.
But Samantha Stevens aside, blonde is not part of the sterotype.
Blond witches. Just aint right.
It is not ‘obvious’ that Ann Coulter is witch.
A ‘harpy’?
Maybe.
Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi more closely fits my mental image of a ‘witch’.
Rachel Madcow is a close second.
Me thinks you do not like what Ann says and how she says it and for that reason you do not like how she looks. But you were not going to buy her books or vote conservative anyway.
What ever butters your biscuit babe.
yor bro ken
I have no audio at this time. Laura called McCain’s daughter “fat”? If so, why? Can someone please let me know?
I heard Ms. McCain went on a diet for three months…and all she lost was three months.
BTW…has anyone seen the articles about how BO and MO…(henceforth collectively known as BOMO) are considering having another baby ? I saw a poll on it today. This should be very interesting, indeed.
Michelle denies it. Honestly, I don’t even know how they’d have time to make it happen. I can’t imagine how busy they must be. It’s hard for regular couples to find “alone” time!
If you can find time to fly your private presidential plane to Chicago for a romantic dinner, you can find time to make a baby.
It reminds me of the sitcoms where when ratings dropped, the mom would have a new baby.
I wonder if all those against reproduction will belittle the Obamas’ new carbon-footprint-enlarger? Probably almost as much as they carry on about Obama and Gore’s time spent gallivanting about in fuel-guzzling jets. It’s only the little people who shouldn’t have more than 2 children.
Then again, maybe they just want to show real solidarity with the baby killers by conceiving a child and aborting him.
Or maybe he has decided that he wants to pass on his name?
a baby in the white house! I hope so. They are wonderful parents.
Isn’t Michelle in her mid 40’s? I know women can definitely have children into their 40’s (I have two younger siblings to prove it!) but it isn’t exactly something you can “plan” on unless of course you’re doing IVF or something.
Of course, I could see the Obama’s doing IVF so I guess we very well could see a newbama.
BTW…has anyone seen the articles about how BO and MO…(henceforth collectively known as BOMO) are considering having another baby ? I saw a poll on it today. This should be very interesting, indeed.
Posted by: Mike at April 2, 2009 10:28 PM
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Tho Obamas are contemplating conceiving a third child?
I don’t know.
Maybe it is a pre-emptive action designed to punish their daughters with a baby, before their daughters can punish them.
It could be object lesson in deterence. An aversion techique.
Maybe PBHO wants to roll the dice one more time in the hope of getting a ‘male child’.
But he only gets one more try.
Three children is still below replacement level.
Four children would exceed the ZPG recommended cap and trade.
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Posted by: AM at April 2, 2009 11:09 PM
Michelle denies it. Honestly, I don’t even know how they’d have time to make it happen. I can’t imagine how busy they must be. It’s hard for regular couples to find “alone” time!
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JFK and Jackie did it.
JFK even found time for some extramarital action.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
‘Camelot’ was not quite the utopia that liberals envsioned or remember.
yor bro ken
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Posted by: ndfan at April 3, 2009 8:04 AM
“a baby in the white house! I hope so. They are wonderful parents.”
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That judgement is premature.
Boney Erbe might disagree with you on the ‘wonderfulness’ of it.
The Obama’s already have two children and a nation, if not a world to look after.
Adoption is the best option if they are determined to have a third child.
yor bro ken
I’m with Lauren that it’s more difficult to conceive naturally at that age, BUT strange things do happen. I babysat for a woman who married late and wanted kids right away, so when she didn’t get pregnant within a year, did IVF and had healthy twins. Three years later, thinking natural pregnancy was impossible so not using BC, she conceived another set of twins unexpectedly. The family now very happily has four kids under the age of 4. Makes me tired just thinking about it but they handle it well! I read somewhere that when you approach menopause, your body sometimes releases more eggs in a biological “last ditch” effort to procreate. So interesting. But yes, I highly doubt the Obamas want to have a baby right now, and I assume they’re doing what they can to prevent that from happening.
I forgot about her being in her 40’s. That’s risky.
Careful ndfan
I had my last child after I turned 40. :)
all I meant was michelle Obama might not be one to take that risk – not that someone should be judged for taking it themselves
My mom had my brother at age 40!
Sometimes “older” moms are the BEST mothers. My mom is great!