Bit of a Rant - National Post Article

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/features/When+twins+many/3960709/story.html

I came across this article in the National Post a couple of days ago, and it made me want to puke.  Balf wrote a blog entry on the same article a couple days ago as well (link to the Out Here Too blog is on the right side of the page), and I thought he was absolutely bang-on in his assessment.  I had seen the article before I read his blog, so I didn't write anything, thinking he had it handled.  Then I stewed on it for a couple days and thought I would add my two cents. 

This entry isn't really in the same tone as the rest, and has nothing to do with Pookie and the trips, but it's my blog, so here we go.

If you haven't read the article I am talking about, click on the link above and you will get a better idea of where I am coming from, it is unbelievable.  You might have to copy and paste it into your address bar, but it should work.

A cold-hearted, egocentric, cruel, disgusting, vile, waste of skin woman in Burlington recently found out that she was pregnant with twins, and made a decision to reduce (abort) one of the fetuses.  She made this decision not because there were medical risks to the remaining fetus, or even her own health.  There also weren't economic hardships that made her believe she would not be able to provide the necesseties for her children.  She aborted one of the children because she thought it would be too inconvenient to have both of them, and it posed too large an inconvenience on her family's lifestyle.  Her explanation, quoted from the National Post is below:

 “We’re both career people. If we were going to have three children two years apart, someone else was going to be raising our kids. ... All of a sudden our lives as we know them and as we like to lead them, are not going to happen.”

What the hell is wrong with this woman?  The story mentions that she already has one young child, so it's not like she doesn't know what it means to be a mother, so how could she be so callous?  She isn't a teenage prositute with nowhere to turn, she isn't a mentally challenged girl that has been raped by weird uncle Rusty, she's a "career woman" that feels that two more children would be too big of a change.

I am not going to offer any views on this blog on the morality of abortion, it is not the forum for it and smarter people than me have argued it to death.  There are no doubt many circumstances where people are forced to make tough decisions, and to be clear, I am not talking about those situations, only the one explained in the attached article.  I will say that aborting a healthy baby that poses no health risks to it's sibling or yourself because it's easier for you to maintain your bullshit lifestyle makes you lower than snake shit in my book.  

What are these parents going to tell the "lucky" baby when it grows up?  You were lucky you were farther back than your sister?  How will they ever be able to justify this decision?  Most importantly, how could they live with themselves knowing that they robbed their surviving children of a brother or sister?  Then you get to the second quote in the article:

“I’m absolutely sure I did the right thing,” she said. “I had read some online forums, people were speaking of grieving, feeling a sense of loss. I didn’t feel any of that. Not that I’m a cruel, bitter person ... I just didn’t feel I would be able to care for (twins) in a way that I wanted to.”

Well, Charles Manson, as long as you're okay with it, I guess there's no issue here at all.  You have to love how she doesn't mention the effects of this decision on anyone but herself, then says she isn't a cruel, bitter person, then says she couldn't care for them the way SHE wanted.  Not one word about anyone but herself.  It gives you chills to know that people can be this selfish, and this detached.  If I was this bitch's husband I would sooner trust my kids to a pack of starving werewolves.

There were quite a few outraged comments in the Post from readers, but overall I think it kind of slipped under the radar.  Maybe instead of shooting doctors and picketing clinics, the anti-abortion zealouts should be paying for a few billboards with these parents' faces and names on it.  If it was such a wonderful, sensible thing to do, I'm sure they wouldn't mind.

I am obviously not coming from an objective viewpoint, but this article literally made me feel like I was going to be sick. 

Anyhoo, sorry about the rant and I promise I will stick to the Pookie updates from here on out.  Unless I see more crap like this, then I'm ranting again.