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It's going ot happen whether we argue about it for a week or a year. Why is it so impossible to just agree to disagree?
It's not gonna change the fact that its still happening... sorry hun, but it's just not helping at all...

Wow. You have a PhD in "Not using your brain". Try reading a logic book sometime, it might make your argument not suck.

Plus she's getting paid for it. That's what totally amazes me.

So, wait, you made an entire additional article just to argue with the comments posted on your previous one? That seems a touch... disproportionate.

Anyway, I think your second point contradicts your first point. If you want to talk about moral absolutism, that rights must apply to everyone--even those who abuse them--then you're going to have a tough time convincing me that you also "believe in reality." Part of reality is having to weigh the consequences of enacting one's moral certainties, and being prepared to compromise when the negatives outweigh the positives.

I'm not a physician, so I'm not prepared to evaluate the birth defect risks of meth, but a cursory look at the internet suggests that they definitely exist, however severe. You can argue for a person's right to do whatever they like to their own body, but assuming we're past the point of viable abortion, the fetus has been promoted to full human and should now have rights of its own. Absolutism and condescension do nothing to advance the debate of which should take precedence.

I agree with you here but pregnancy, if you are lucky, is a conscious choice.... the girl who gets pregnant from rape sure as fuck didn't choose to get pregnant!

But drug use is a conscious choice and these women who get pregnant while using and then continue to use have to be held accountable. But as the problem has so many roads coming off it, it is impossible to work out a solution. We could argue that the government is responsible because the woman's drug use stems from unemployment or blame their sexually-abusive father for their use ... it's a fucking minefield of pointing the finger...

Once thing is for sure, Bitch_PhD... you can point out that pregnany is a thing that the body does naturally, and I agree, but where, in any situation is it natural for a woman to shoot up meth while pregnant.

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what's your educated guess on the percentage of pregnancies every year that are the result of rape? my guess is less than 1 tenth of 1 percent. meaning that to say a girl is lucky if a girl's pregnancy is a conscious choice isn't true. it would be extremely unlucky fo the opposite to happen. that's all i'm saying.

No one ever did get back to me about that food critic column proposition, either.

ok, sounds like a legitimate source, except for the fact that it's 11 years old. but if the number is accurate today, that's 32,000 out of how many?

SG, apparently, has a moronic policy where people can be their own editors and approve their own stories. This leads to the newswire being an LJ and to poor grammar.

Not to agree or disagree with him or to diminish the problem of pregnancy from rape or rape in general for that matter, but if you assume that 1.5 billion women are of childbearing age (that's an educated guess) and the birth rate (2006) is 20.05 per 1000 (roughly 2%), then the number of those pregnancies resulting from rape would be about very close to one-tenth of one percent of all pregnancies in any given year.

At least you where smart enough to buy a Doctorate online instead of wasting 3 days at a real university to come to the sad realization that your a complete moron.

" (or, barring that, that we know someone who knows how to induce a miscarriage) "

According to your blog you have a son which makes the above your post even more disturbing.
In response to your LE SIGH post. Your son isn't going to make it to high school let alone graduate school. If you continue with that attitude .