Letters to the Editor
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Paltrow is reprehensible and negligent
Her refusal to acknowledge pain once the birth is complete shows her to be one of those people who are so focused on the intra-womb fetus as to be completely ignorant of, and uncaring about, unborn children who've taken the next step into the world.
Letting women know the pain they will subject their children to by having an abortion is clearly a common-sense approach, as is adding to it, as Paltrow suggests, by informing them about the pain they will subject their children to by giving them birth.
It is CRITICAL, however, that we not stop there. I know I'm not the only unborn child who has experienced the world beyond the womb as a fundamentally hostile and painful one. I skinned my knee many times. Yesterday, a kitten attempted to climb me, and I've got the gashes to prove it. I've got many scars from my childhood. I was beaten by my school mates, I was broken up with by my lovers, and I've had to pay taxes for all of my adulthood.
My mother was left in the dark about all these dangers. Nobody told her I'd have to deal with this crap. And people like Paltrow would choose to keep our mothers' eyes veiled, would choose to keep them ignorant and unaware.
Clearly, we need a bill that doesn't just deal with unborn children IN the womb and exiting it, but deal with them more holistically, and acknowledge the full life cycle of an unborn child, from being in the womb, to exiting it, to living outside the womb for many years, to death. Paltrow doesn't go far enough. Not nearly far enough.