"Baby Bating": Showing An Ultrasound Before An Abortion
Thank GAWD an advocacy group is suing over an Oklahoma law that prohibits women from getting an abortion unless they first have an ultrasound and are forced to listen to the doctor describe what the fetus looks like.
I surely hope they're the victors in this fight. This is honestly one fucked up law. Trying to "baby bait" women; some of whom are poor, already have children they are struggling to raise, are too young to be effective mothers, or are just plain UNFIT for motherhood, into keeping a fetus their first instinct tells them they do not want and cannot take care of, is really despicable.
If the law remains on their side and they are allowed to keep practicing this, you know what I feel I have a right to do? I'd like to set up shop in an OBGYN's office and force pregnant chicks to hear all of the ills that come with babies.
Cause like the supporters of the ultrasound law, I'd really like to make sure they know what they're getting into.
I wanna bombard them with all kinds of figures on the cost of raising a baby. I'd like to show these women how much daycare costs (With an average of $8,150 per year ($679 a month), daycare costs for babies and toddlers in the United States range from $4,388 to $14,647 a year ($366 to $1,221 monthly), according to data from the National Association of Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies (NACCRRA). I feel they need to know how much it costs to constantly buy new clothing for babies and young children due to their rapid rate of growth. I wanna give them the facts on how many shit filled diapers they're going to change in those first few years of their baby's life. I'd like to show them how much sleep they're going to lose catering to their whiny baby's every whim. I wanna prepare them for the possibility of postpartum depression and just how crippling it is. I want them to have to take care of someone else's colicky baby for a few weeks so they can be driven to the edge of madness by the incessant crying of a baby that essentially CANNOT BE CONSOLED. I want to force them to read the book "Blindsided By A Diaper" which details a study that was done with new parents in 2003 by Newsweek that reveals 67% of them complain that after kids they have less sex, less fun, and more arguments than before. I wanna show them the studies of how much LESS money you make when you become a mother due to that dreaded "Mommy Tax".
Casue after all, do these women KNOW what they're getting into? If not, I'd like to be the one to educate them. That's the decent thing to do right?
I mean, pro-lifers can get away with their agenda, what's so bad about mine? While theirs romanticizes the notion of a baby by describing what the ultrasound looks like and manipulates someone's fragile emotions while giving NONE of the facts about what their life as a mother will be like, mine is based in REALITY.
Friday, October 10, 2008
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