...after having been born, in particular being murdered after one has reached adulthood and has a well-developed personality, wishes, wants, aspirations, a sense of self, etc.

Being born into a horrid patriarchal society can be a really terrible life. And it might be a life in which one is killed, horribly--as in being accidentally-on-purpose burned alive in a so-called "kitchen mishap", in an all-too-common extortion scheme called a "dowry murder." (Ironically, limiting the supply of females may do away with dowries and hence, those abominations known as "dowry murders.")

Why would a woman willingly murder her own kind, while consenting to give birth to her kind's oppressors? It can only be happening when she LOVES her children and wouldn't wish the sort of life that she, herself, is having on anyone.

Think back to the story, "Beloved," which so eloquently expressed exactly why a mother would murder her children as an alternative to seeing them live a life of abject, hopeless misery.

Another ironic thing:

Consider that the right-to-life faction is pushing for ultrasounds for all pregnant women in the USA, with the intention being to discourage abortions. (Their intentions behind requiring ultrasounds are twofold, the first being an assumption that any expectant mother's heart would melt at the sight of her "preborn baby," that she won't be able to find it in her heart to abort it, and the second being the goal of piling huge additional operating expenses onto abortion clinics, possibly bankrupting the ones that are operating on a shoestring.)

Isn't it "interesting" that the very same technology is being used, in one culture, to facilitate/encourage abortions and is being pushed in another culture to discourage them?

1-People in Germany initially laughed off the Nazis as being a very small--and therefore unimportant--band of political extremists.

2-Being kneejerk-pro-Israel is not at all the same thing as not being anti-Jewish. The nutcases have a belief that the Middle East--with Israel playing a major role--will be at the center of the action when the End of Days comes upon us. It's also helpful to remember that not all Jews are Zionists and that supporting the interests of Israel does nothing to support the interests and rights of Jews who live in the USA and who intend to remain living here.

3-There are right-wing extremist nutcases right here in California, some of whom voted for Tom Metzger as the DEMOCRATIC (hows THAT for irony?) candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives.

4-Yes, I agree that religious extremism of all stripes is a threat to civilization as we know it. Even some Hindus have become radicalized ('though they don't seem to be a direct threat to the U.S. at this time). It's important to encourage all moderate Christians, Jews, and Muslims to speak out against the wacko-extremists and do everything within their power to marginalize them. I believe that freedom OF religion should include the option to also be free OF religion.

5-Yes, the extremists ARE very widespread, and you WILL commonly find them on seated on school boards. Actually, that is their political GAME PLAN--something that I read about over twenty years ago, in their own propaganda--which is to gain political power by starting with very minor offices--namely school board seats--and to move up from there. Remember to, that the wacko-nutcases are all mobilized to get out the vote. SO it's very, very important for the moderates among us to vote, too. And, not only that, but we must carefully scrutinize all candidates for every office and be careful to not vote for the "Fundie-activist" candidates. If they think that they can start with our school boards, then, well...we can also squelch their intentions at that early level.

STOP KVETCHING, AND START VOTING!

If not having enough money for a big, fancy wedding is the only thing that's holding them back, then why not just go down to the county courthouse and get married? You can always have your big, fancy wedding later, when you've got the bucks.

Now, I'm not for mandatory marriage. (I'm kinda militantly single, myself.) And I realize that they were fighting for a principle--the right for more than three unrelated people to live together.

I'm just being pragmatic here: If you intended to marry in any case, you already have kids, you're already living together, and not being technically married is the only thing that's hanging you up, then why be so stubborn just for the sake of a principle? --A principle that just got voted down, and which can result in the splitting up of your family?

Now, if they were a gay couple, that'd be a whole other ball of wax. And I could envision a het couple fighting for the rights of unrelated people to live together as a principle, in order to show solidarity with gays. And I think that this whole "bi-racial" thing is probably a red herring, because I'm guessing that the city officials probably want to be able to keep gay families from easily moving into their town--this in addition to "hippie communes," dormitories for illegal alien casual laborers, and any similar housing arrangements.