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ismnotwasm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-02-06 03:28 AM
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9. Ask them about selective abortions during multiple births
(We have a women up here who just had four due to fertility drugs and the press is jumping all over it, and the "church is raising funds" to help the young couple)In fact ask them why so silent on the subject on fertilized unimplanted ova. Ask them about diseases with known genetic markers that will kill the child before the age of 3, diseases that will cause pain and suffering to the child. Ask them about mole pregnancies, the anecephalic fetus, debilitating birth defects that endanger both mother and fetus.
Ask them about hyperemesis, Preclampsia, Maternal diabetes, post partum bleeding, including DIC. Ask them about an incompetent cervix, or multiple miscarriages. Do these women have the right to attempt to bear a child over and over again? (Not MY business) Ask them about the world infant mortality rate.--Or is it just in the good old US we worry about little ones? Turn the tables every change you get. Test their limits. Every time they get all everything is beautiful on your ass, point out that every birth is not beautiful, nor welcome, nor safe, or even a good fucking idea. I'm sure you'll think of some good ones.

If you feel like it, you can even tell them they're completely full of shit, because they can't guarantee joy.

Oh, and tell them their slogan sucks. Refuse to choose. Bullshit.
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