Mothers Day

[nolawitch58]

Once again, I am grateful I had the opportunity to avoid ruining my own and someone else's life in the endeavor known as motherhood. Every time I see a story in the news about someone killing or abusing their offspring, I wish more people had the strength to know their limitations and choose not to reproduce as I did. I wish society stopped lying to people, especially women, that they are unfulfilled as human beings without squirting out offspring they can not or will not care for properly.

I wish that people would see that providing contraception to all who need it is better than more millions of unwanted children being born. I wish they would see that providing abortions is better than wasting tax money on police investigations, trials, and incarcerations of those who abuse and neglect their progeny and those same progeny who grow to adulthood and criminality as a result of such abuse and neglect.

Maybe someday we'll see the idiocy of the pro-natalist, anti-choicer dipshits diminished the way their hateful rhetoric against homosexuals is fading. I will host parties when marriage equality is the law of the land and no women are forced by any constraint to give birth to children they don't want.

Comments

[saminz.livejournal.com]

Well put.

Here in Europe, we are doing a bit better, I guess. Workers are decidedly discouraged from having children. By prohibitive cost of child-care, exorbitant mandatory health care rates etc.

Kids are being made by the very poor who have nothing left to lose, of by the very rich, who won't actually take care of them either.

At least we're having less and less of them, which certainly can't be wrong, all things considered :-).

[kitten-goddess.livejournal.com]

Anyone who wants to have children should try babysitting first. At least they'd have an idea that raising kids is WORK.

If I were a dictator, I would make all girls have a ParaGuard IUD inserted when they hit puberty. ParaGuard is an IUD that contains no hormones and prevents conception for 10 years. The teenage pregnancy rate would go down to almost 0 and there would be fewer unwanted children.

[elnigma.livejournal.com]

FYI Paraguard is contraindicated for anybody with a copper sensitivity. It'd be nice if they'd come up with something safer.

[real-skeptic.livejournal.com]

Or inject boys with Vasalgel. It's reversible, so they could decide to procreate. If I were a dictator, I'd also make them and their ladies go through a parenting course with mandatory examinations and maybe some internship, and only then allow them to have the reversal injection. :-)