ok, i’m down for the contest.
dammit, i lost. double or nothing?
Greg, your sentiment kind of mirrors mine. I don’t know that I’d go so far as to say I’m pro-abortion, b/c quite frankly I’m very ANTI-abortion, but I’m a very big proponent for safe sex and protecting yourself BEFORE you have to make that decision. If everyone were so responsible, we wouldn’th have to worry about the abortion issue so much.
I mean how hard is it to take the pill? Or put on a condom? I mean there’s always abstinence too, but I’m not going to go all radical and crazy on you…it’s not for everyone. I definitely agree that something needs to be done to change the mindset of the american public on this issue.
It’s like some sick one-up game. I was at the grocery store just the other day and I saw a magazine that actually had the headline " The hot new accessory - Babies". I mean WTF??? A Baby? As a Fashion Statement? Or how about when I go to pick up my son from school and I get dirty looks for the mothers there that have 3 and 4 kids b/c I only had one. One of them actually had the nerve to tell me I didn’t know what being a mother was like since I only had to “deal” with one! Believe me, I had a lot of choice words for her that day, but I kept them to myself seeing as how my child has to go to school there everyday and I’m a reponsible adult - a characteristic that she obviously lacks based on her reproductive decisions.
But then comes my favorite of all… the guilters. I was out sick from work last week and the day that I got back, I had 3 separate people come up to me and tell me " C’mon…just tell us - you’re pregnant aren’t you? That’s why you were out so sick last week. Congratulations!!!" I was like " NO, I’m not pregnent, nor do I want to become pregnant ever again." Which ellicited the most horrified response - “But you’re so young! You could have one or two more easily!!”
Yes, I could have 1 or 2 more… I could have a whole gaggle in fact. I could surgically alter my uterus so that babies would just magically fall out instead of going through labor… but I don’t want to. I don’t understand why there is so much pressure for young women who are in relationships to get pregnant. Maybe if more people realized it’s the quality of your parenting and not the quantity of your kids, we’d be a happier society and a less crowded species.
Or maybe you should get into the kitchen and make me a pie! Banana cream!
Sorry, that was uncalled for, hahahahaha.
Well Tom… I’m allergic to banana, but would you settle for a big, wholesome glass of STFU?
LOL!!!
JUST KIDDING!!!
hahahahahahaha.
alright, i can admit when i get burned.
::thinks of the part in Monty Python’s The Meaning Of Life with the Catholic Family::
For the record Greg, there is only 1 Pope.
He says no to condoms.
You might be thinking about a Cardinal or Bishop. There are many of them.
I’m pro-choice, but I’m a man so my opinion on abortion is pointless, until a man can have a baby.
I don’t know if this country is ready for a law limiting children… I mean sure you find people sometimes having too many but most people are pretty conservative. It was much more common to find 8-10 kid families a few generations ago and nearly unheard of these days. Course thats a different story in underdeveloped countries but they also have a higher mortality rate. So are you saying China is ahead of the curve? People go thru a lot of suffering over there with the one child law… people will do crazy things to get what they want. A big problem is people want a male and if its a female will try to get rid of the child to try again… like its an object. Also if someone accidentally gets pregnant a 2nd time there is pressure from the community to abort… not to mention the shame, humilation and condemnation the person goes thru.
yes!
Many of my thoughts echo those above. I wanted to hit on something Moma said, in that my girlfriend has been having anxiety attacks recently, which we have attributed to managing a shitty gas station with shitty employees who dick her over, and the company as a whole is run by a bunch of closed-minded men. She had gone to the ER one day (her day off), and when she returned, one of the questions that her boss asked her about was if she was pregnant. Not really in a joking manner mind you, though he is not the most serious or organized boss. This guy usually tries to ‘help her out’ by bringing her employees from other stores who are absolute delinquents, or tries to ship her good employees elsewhere. …sorry [/end rant] My point of this was that their first thought was pregnancy as she is mid-20’s, not the fact that their actions might be hurting her well-being.
I can understand what you’re getting at, and I don’t completely disagree, but I’m not sure you can call someone irresponsible just because they had 2 or 3 more kids than you.
I’m not against abortion at all but I understand those who are. What I don’t get is how none of these women seem to realize that adoption is a VERY viable option. It seems like there are so many gals who get knocked up and who are against abortion so they decide to keep the kid and adoption never even enters their mind. We REALLY need to push the option of adoption into our public schools. There are SO MANY people on the waiting list for children who could give these kids a much better life than some 16-year-old in high school could yet these gals never get it. Maybe I’m kind of callous but I get SO pissed when I see some girl who’s 17 or so in the store who’s leading around some 2-year old. Just ridiculous.
Still, over all, it amazes me how anyone can POSSIBLY get someone pregnant on accident. Guys, don’t EVER trust birth control…use a frickin helmet (not to mention the disease thing). Heck, they even have male birth control these days. Use all three, for God’s sake!!!
Stevo
and just because this one also popped up in my google image search
Greg…what doesn’t make sense to me about your post is that you were someones child. You are basically saying that you don’t deserve to be alive, so if you feel that other people don’t deserve to get to live (and this goes for any pro-abortion person), you should start with eliminating yourself from this world, if you really feel that overpopulation is a problem.
BTW…we have more than enough resources to have everyone in the world well nourished and educated. The problem is that people in North America/Europe consume way way more than they need and waste basically everything else that they don’t need. If we increased our Cereal production in North America by 3%, we would have enough food to to make sure there is no one in the world who is malnourished. 3%! So don’t give me this, we are running out of space/resources. Canada has the 2nd largest land mass in the world and 80% of our population lives within 150 miles of the American border. Space and resources are not a problem, greed is the real problem plaguing our world and Abortion is merely a symptom of this greed. Instead of wasting less and consuming less, we find it necessary to kill children intead.
LOL!! ^^ to both pics.
And no Greg, I don’t think that a woman who has 2 more kids than me is irresponsible b/c she’s got those kids, I think she’s irresponsible b/c she doesn’t refer to parenting her children as that, she refers to it as “dealing” with them… and how I’ve got it so much easier. If there’s that much resentment over being a mother to children that you VOULUNTARILY brought ito this world… that is irresponsible.
It’s not a crime to say you don’t want kids. It should be a crime, however, how our society puts pressure on young women to “listen you their clocks” and have babies…like it’s some right of passage. I just want to scream " You’re not cool b/c you have kids… you’re not special b/c you have no time to yourself… you decided to make yourself a martyr for your children… nobody else did that for you."
Would it really be so bad if less of us decided to have kids? Not everyone is cut out to be a parent… and that’s not a bad thing!
El BAstarde… I’m also gald you brought up the point about adoption. We’ve all heard my personal brush with that before…but I just have to say it IS a viable option… and a great one.
I wasn’t saying I don’t deserve to be alive. I’m saying that I’m the second of two kids my parents had. And that’s enough. And if my parents had decided after having my sister that they couldn’t afford/handle another kid, I’d have been fine with being an abortion.
I’m glad my mom put me up for adoption. Living is pretty cool.
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awesomely offensive! I HEART YOU
Good posts el bastard and goldenroad! … on the previous page… over there…
Impregnating female dogs with white tailed gnu sperm…
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