YESSSSSS!

What's the point in granting a fetus full human rights, only to strip away most of those rights as soon as it's born?

Under the current U.S. scheme, children are the quasi-property of parent(s), who are free to use, abuse, oppress and deny them in any way they see "fit". The past 25 years have seen some significant advances against physical abuse, and sexual abuse has come out of its closet at last.

One of my friends caught his mother putting Rat Poison in the morning oatmeal. He ran away (at age 10), then after 2 days of being, cold, scared and alone, he turned himself into the Police, thinking they would help him and defend him against a murderous psychopath.

Instead, he was thrown into Juvenile Hall, and after a month of interrogations and hearings, returned to his so-called home.

We want to believe that we have progressed, but even now, in Los Angeles, we don't go more than 2 or 3 months without news of how the multi-layered child protection bureaucracy has failed to prevent the death of a child at the hands of a family member.

Chances are, in a city this size, for every death confirmed to be due to family abuse, there are 50 more that go unrecognized, and hundreds more at continual risk.

spaceegg, while i pretty much agree with your premise, i just had to say how much it irritates me when someone uses 'your' instead of 'you're'. i have trouble concentrating on the rest of your point. don't take it personally, i'm a stickler for that sort of thing.

I think the argument we face today is not a question of whether it's natural, but if a woman should be allowed complete reproductive rights even if she is a user of such a substance.

i say no. 'complete' being the objective word.

and it was a good one, thanks.

This is just fucking ridiculous. It's like she's a one-trick pony, and the trick is sticking her head up her ass. Someone at SG please take note and stop this -- you don't seriously intend for your newswire to become a fringe personal blog, do you? Let her beat this dead horse in her journal.

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And this is what, in a way, Bitch_PhD was trying to condemn... it is an absolute moral and ethical minefield to even try to contemplate how you would go about setting up legislation for this... where do you stop? Use meth, no baby or no job, no baby... or even no strong faith in God, no baby... you're asking for trouble..

Folks, I've figured something out...she doesn't actually have an opinion on the subject, she just found a subject that will garner comments. SG staff probably told her to ride this pony until it receives less than x amount of posts. So, while I am unfortunately adding to the count of this vapid, selfish, crotch of a human being, I suggest that we just ignore her when we see this.

what does that have to do with meth though? which happens to be the worst upper, maybe 2nd worse drug and THE most socially unacceptable of them all.. meth actually makes it incredibly hard for a woman to get prego even if she would want to.. and makes it so guys are deficient in that area too. its just great all around..sarcasm. it need to be stopped but blaming its users and attacking them will do nothing. when our govt stops the influx into our country then we will perhaps have a reprieve.. but i cant really forsee any of that.

wait...i thought meth was made here?

It's dust. But still being beaten.

The definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over but expecting a different result.