so that chick - the one with the 14 kids. these were frozen embryos - their storage time was up - so pay for more storage; donate or destroy. that's a normal person's options. well, or try to have a baby although ya know after six i'm not sure you should have any more naturally let alone with fertility treatments. but legally it's a problem who is going to be in charge of drawing that line? i mean some people don't think you should do any fertility treatments. hell, i struggled for years about whether i thought it was appropriate to have children naturally. there are so many kids already here who need a good home; we have an overpopulation problem etc etc. and i know one person (albeit a freaking nutcase) who believes that there should be forced sterilization.
so there's a woman i went to high school with - her son died. he was no more than a year old. my grandmother had two stillborns and a baby that lived for 2 or 3 days and then died BEFORE her three surviving children. the woman i went to school with is openly grieving on facebook (that isn't supposed to sound judgemental). she has started a group to raise awareness for congenital heart defects. to the best of my knowledge my grandmother barely talked to her friends about it and got pregnant again. she certainly never started a spina bifida awareness group. i just find it interesting - the contrast which i think has more to do with the times than with the people.on the one hand my grandmother's generation stifling all that pain / on the other handwe have almost made trauma the end of everything. again not a criticism. if anything happened to malachai i'm nearly certain i would kill myself. i only say nearly because i'm not sure i would even have the energy to do it. is it faith? is that alone what has made the difference?
oh kim - did i mention that i have a present for you??
Also . . . I can kill you with my brain
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Forced sterilization... our old neighbor? Actually, though it's wrong I wouldn't fight it too hard. You know, after like 6 abortions, tell them they get a free sterilization. Maybe not forced, but free and really easy.
Gimme my present already.
I agree.
I think people today think that death is ultimately avoidable. Now if someone dies it is a tragedy. (but if you have ever lost someone it absolutely is a tragedy!) I think maybe in your grandmother's time you just HAD to come to terms with death because there wasn't the very high tech medicine we have today.
Forced sterilization, medical technology being denied, planned famines...
Eugenics, genetic testing for autism...
Yeah...
kimber - yep that be the one. i would fight forced sterilization - oh, and by the way he meant for everyone. personally i would be happy to pay for sterilizations and abortions for anyone who wanted them. that is good use of my tax dollars. too many people who have kids shouldn't. it's more humane and cost effective. sorry, that's how i see it.
oh, and nah nah nah nah boo boo
andrea, as i said pros and cons. i'm not criticizing either side. or maybe i am but i'm criticizing both sides and neither at the same time- know what i mean?? it's just interesting. even today's meds wouldn't do anything for those three babies. maybe the last one with extensive surgeries. which is why i had them test for spina bifida. i figured down's there is nothing i could do about it but spina bifida they could prepare for surgery etc. i guess one thing i really think about is what my grandmother did with her grief. that and thinking it's a little pathetic that gideon's death is kicking my ass as hard as it is.
mark - is this a response to my post? cuz - - huh?
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