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In reply to the discussion: Mom caught driving while texting w/ baby in lap [View all]Zalatix
(8,994 posts)48. Yes, very true, but that's not relevant to this story.
This person would still probably be texting while driving even if she was sterile from birth. She would still be a danger to others.
Less access to reliable birth control does mean more child neglect and endangerment. But access to it would not have made this person any less dangerous. Birth control would be utterly tangential to this story.
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Here, let me help you out- SHE'S TACKY!! Period. You're nice in the way you put things
Ecumenist
Apr 2012
#16
WTF is that supposed to mean? A bit more subtlety and you might actually be around for longer. nt
Guy Whitey Corngood
Apr 2012
#33
EXACTLY, Whitey Corngood. I knew the second I read the post that it was a " new" DUer.
Ecumenist
Apr 2012
#35
I think "it" misread my post and assumed when I said, "as a Black woman", that I was referring to
Ecumenist
Apr 2012
#38
Actually, I have, seeing as how I'M A BLACK WOMAN and I have had to deal with poor souls
Ecumenist
Apr 2012
#34
Whenever you see people using a mirror to post self-portraits it is a bad sign. nt
Snake Alchemist
Apr 2012
#19
If she goes to prison, they will likely go to a family member and then back to her.
Snake Alchemist
Apr 2012
#24
How do you know her mother named her? Often, in some region of American black culture, The
Ecumenist
Apr 2012
#37