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Saturday, April 21, 2007 12:30 AM

At 9 months, a baby is not capable of surviving on its own

But it is pushed out of the body because otherwise it would be too damn big to ever come out.

Actually it is pretty obvious that birth means very little in terms of when life begins. So I am very okay with banning ALL abortions after the first trimester.

And I'm okay with forcing women, and strapping them down onto a bed, and strapping their hands down to their sides to make sure the live baby is protected from the angry mobbish women baby killer until the baby is born.

And then the women should be thrown in jail for being a danger to a live person, with one exception.

The "mother" should be forced to work and pay off the state's costs in raising the child. And the child as it grows should be protected from meeting with its mother. And basically told what a horrible bitch the mother is.

So let's recap:

1) After the first trimester ALL abortions are outlawed

2) Women caught seeking an abortion (perhaps a google search) are imprisoned in a hospital and strapped to a gurney until birth.

3) After the birth, the baby is taken from mother and never to see her again

4) Mother is billed for all of this, and mother is forced to pay state's cost in raising baby.

5) Baby is told Mom is a cold hearted bitch that tried to kill her.

After all, women are basically irresponsible sex freaks and baby killers. The woman had a chance to use birth control prior to conception. If the mother didn't use birth control she still has a chance for emergency birth control or a first trimester abortion.

After that there is another person present and mother is just a cold hearted bitch trying to kill another person and abandon her financial responsibilities.

So yes, by attempting murder, mother should be tossed in jail, but at the least should be forced to give up child and pay for its raising.

THAT would be in the best interest of the child, and we know how all you feminists insist on courts doing what is in the best interest of the child.

Friday, April 20, 2007 02:52 PM

Whoops.

Arrgh! I am pro life, we all are!

I am however, also very much pro-choice.

I blame the after-lunch doldrums for my mistake.

Friday, April 20, 2007 02:47 PM

But you are the one that insists the court must consider the best interests of the child...

I am pro-life and think the Court's decision was asinine.

However, I am surprised you worry about fetal rights being more important than maternal rights.

Haven't you and yours been pushing the courts not to have a rebuttable presumption of joint custody because the court needs to consider the best interests of the child?

The "best interests of the child" test leads to many constitutional problems regarding due process and freedom of speech and even search and seizure.

But that's your test.

When fathers' rights groups and law professors like Eugene Volokh tell you it's unconstitutional all we here is how natural it is for the mother to parent the child and it is in the best interest of the child to severe parenting rights from the father, or insist the father pay support even if unemployed, or allow the mother and child to move away, or insist the father cannot teach the child about one religion, or about being homosexual, or even defend himself against parental alienation and lies from the mother.

So you established "best interests of the child" and now you fear "best interests of the fetus."

Oh well. So sad. Too bad.

Friday, April 20, 2007 12:26 PM

Confidential to Danno...

Hey Danno, get your keyboard replaced, apparently it is missing the enter key.

Friday, April 20, 2007 09:11 AM

The control was supposedly contaminated.

In the case of the HPV vaccine, the same number of people reported side effects who received the placebo.

A control is really not the same as a placebo.

In this case, the control, it is claimed, was contaminated (by design) with elements of the supposedly inert carrier that contains the vaccine. This acts to reduce the numbers of reported side effects attributed to the vaccine.

Is this true? Seems like something a reporter could easily find out and report on.

Friday, April 20, 2007 08:01 AM

And why are so many feminists attributing opposition to Gardasil to Misogyny?

There's an awful lot of feminists on your blogroll that insist that opposition to Gardasil is misogyny.

What's up with that?

Is it misogynistic to question anything a feminist wants?

Why are so many feminists on your blogroll apparently unconcerned with lobbying, graft, fast-tracking, potentially contaminated drug testing, the FDA's poor record on drug safety (esp. during the Bush years)?

Why do so many feminists on your blogroll say that the majority of opposition comes from godbags and christofascists that hate their daughters? Why do so many claim that there are almost no liberals opposed to mandatory Gardasil?

Seriously, is there some other agenda for these feminists, is it ignorance, or is it just there typical tactics of smear?

And why would you continue to blogroll ignorance and hate?

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