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• Sunday, October 5, 2008 09:48 AM

  Re: "well-off women" pining for all the unwanted babies in the world

  I think that adoption would be a better solution if the god damn government would stay out of it. I know several well-off women who would pay the girls expenses and take very good care of the baby; perhaps even pay her a profit.

  Enough of them to take care of every baby that results from every unplanned pregnancy? Really?

  Are they getting in line for all the brown babies too?

  Have they established a non-profit fund for pre-natal care for all the unplanned pregnancies experienced by women who can't afford it while they wait out the pregnancies they were so irresponsible to get themselves into in the first place?

  Legally the boy has no say;

  This just takes the cake. Until Roe v Wade, even during the forging of that decision, the only people who had any legal say were MEN.

  You need to stop digging.

  Oops! Here we go again:

  she only has 9 months of "slavery" and then can give baby up for adoption.

  Have you ever had to live with a choice like this? Then you truly have no fucking clue what that girl goes through. You really don't no matter how much thought you've put into the subject.

  There are HUGE emotional issues involved with pregnancy, and the circumstances surrounding it, that make it impossible for you, or anyone else who has never gone through it, to make simplistic judgments the likes of which you have been indulging here.

  I like government to stay completely out of these things and would vote in my state to keep the option open for women who decide to kill the baby.

  How big of you. Good to know that 'freedom from government' tops even life on your scale. I suppose we all have to have our priorities though. And you deign to lecture women on what our "options" should be according to your 'moral code'.

  As if.

  I would let karma dish out the punishment;

  Until every man, who is an equal part in the act of conception, fulfills every responsibility implicit in each act of intercourse, it is nothing less than subjugation of women to imply that every woman should carry that burden.

  —Pedinska Read Pedinska's other letters
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