Sterilize the Stupid, before they skinny dip in the gene pool

This morning on Y100 (my morning non-music listening of choice), they were talking about a woman in Salt Lake City, who, upon finding out that she needed a C-section to deliver her twins or they might die, refused the C-section. Not because of religious beliefs. Because she didn't want the scar.

She delivered her children vaginally, and one of the twins was dead. An autopsy has led doctors to believe that both would have lived if she had done as advised. She was arrested on charges of murder, with $250,000 bail posted.

I don't think it's possible to talk about this without bringing up abortion (though I'd have to say that at the nine-month mark, we're a little beyond "my body, my choice"). Or blind-ass stupidity. Sweetie, if you'd rather have your babies die than mar your precious body, then maybe abortion and a more permanent birth control are for you.

I've read an article (too lazy to look it up now, but hey, it's a slow day at work - maybe later) about a childless, unmarried woman who asked for a tubal ligation because she never wanted any children. Her doctor suggested she undergo a psychiatric exam. Where was someone like that at any point in this woman's life? Maybe we're looking at it the wrong way, and IUDs should be inserted upon puberty, and you have to go through a psychiatric exam to prove you CAN have children, and have it removed.

You don't just squat out babies and let them raise themselves. Being a parent involves a lot of devotion and responsibility. You are now no longer living for yourself - you have a little life to care for and protect and raise and teach and guide. Maybe she shouldn't be sent to jail - just sterilized and have the living baby taken away from her. And forced to work at a burn clinic, or somewhere she can see life-altering scars every day for the rest of her life.

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In my previous post, I mentioned an article that I had a chance of looking for if I got bored at work. I remember being linked to it from the childfree community, so stopped in to see if I could find it quickly.

No such luck.

And man, some of those people = crazy fucks.

I don't want children. Why? Because I'm utterly self-involved and the idea of handing over the rest of my life to this little person just turns me off. But there are plenty of people I've met in my life who are very good parents - loving and kind, disciplinary when needed, yada yada yada. And I'm glad. SOMEONE has to perpetuate the species. I won't hold it against someone that they like children and happen to maybe have one or two around the house. Nor do I hold it against them if they give me that knowing smile and say, "Oh, you'll want one of your own someday." Because hey - maybe I will! One day I'll be 32 (God willing), and some guy'll be all, "Shit, bitch, you is fine," and I'll be all, "Shit, bitch, you is fine as well," and we'd make some fine offspring. I've changed my mind before. But as of right now, none of that is in my plan.

But some of these people are of the type that make one say, "Good! I'm GLAD you're not having children! And stop being on my side!"

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