[anarch]

"only 23% of the kids in state care waiting for adoption are a year old or less. The rest of them? Yeah, they tend to hang around in the system. I'm familiar with this, as half of my family (two brothers, one sister) were in foster care until their teens. 42% of the kids waiting to be adopted have been in continuous foster care for three years or longer. . . . It bugs the crap out of me when folks imply that putting up the kid for adoption is a viable response to abortion."

Thought this was interesting as I haven't read about adoption stats before.

[dj-bizmonkey]

done, done and done faerietails! and how the hell did that freak-a-leak snatch your cute picture? i am fuming at fanatic fuckers with photoshop (and i also love alliteration)

[faerietails2]

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[girltrouble]

yawn. troll alert.

ignore linky here: to ignore perilous times
just hit the ignore button on the next screen.

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code:
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[girltrouble]

yawn. troll alert.

ignore linky here: to ignore perilous times
just hit the ignore button on the next screen.

and here is the code (minus the right "]") to post in other threads incase i, or another bustie doesn't post. it should take you to your own ignore screen and put perilous in the correct space. just hit the ignore button.

code:
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[ginger_kitty]

This is a interesting article a friend sent me about one woman's choice to have an abortion:

http://lifestyle.msn.com/MindBodyandSoul/W...5719&page=1

[Porn Star]

hurrah. someone's been giving our lot ideas... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6717947.stm

it sounds horribly, horribly familiar. Compulsory counselling and a week-long "cooling off" period.

I don't understand....are you approving this news or not? In my opinion everyone should do what ever he wants with his life if is not interfering in someones else life.

[culturehandy]

Ahhh real women, the pro-life feminists.

*head explodes*

[anarch]

Culture, I have a vivid memory that when "REAL Women" started up, my mom read about them serving homebaked cookies to their (male, of course, esp at that time) MPs along with requests to kick women out of professional life and back into kitchens & bedrooms, or something, and how pleased and sympathetic the MPs were...Mom was so disgusted! "Of COURSE these men are sympathetic! Bringing them @#$%^&! cookies!"

Thanks for posting that, mornington. Good to keep tabs on how the fight's going in other places.

[culturehandy]

Ah.

Still makes me irrate. REAL women here in Canada are just as nuts.

[mornington]

it wasn't ever intended to change the law, culture - more sort of making lots of noise and trying to convince people that pro-choicers are in the minority. The anti-choicers have been doing this for a while over here, usually a few weeks after a similar racket is made in the states.

[culturehandy]

possible mental health problems? Like being raped and being forced to carry a child doesn't cause mental problems.

At least the bill was defeated.

[mornington]

hurrah. someone's been giving our lot ideas... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6717947.stm

it sounds horribly, horribly familiar. Compulsory counselling and a week-long "cooling off" period.

[ginger_kitty]

That is kind of a wierd pic for the article. I have a problem with doctors that refuse medical treatment based on personal beliefs/laziness. It shows a complete lack of compassion and ethics. Why did they get into medicine in the first place, it makes me wonder.

[thepointybird]

It IS kind of a weird picture, erinjane! What bugs me most about this story is that I don't even reckon it's a moral objection half the time - I think it's bloody laziness. Like the RCOG spokeswoman says - there's no money or glory in it, so why bother?

[erinjane]

Did anyone else think the picture that accompanied that article was a little strange?

[mornington]

sigh.... sometimes, I wonder if I should have gone for medicine (despite my complete inability to watch casualty without gagging). Although I fully back the idea that learning how to perform abortions should be compulsory, or that nurses should be given the training as well.

what also saddens me is the number of comments going "hurrah".

[thepointybird]

News from the UK -

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article...ions/article.do

as if we didn't have enough to worry about.....

[culturehandy]

I read about this today.

[culturehandy]

I never said that children couldn't grow up to be successful, it is just I have seen some of the worst situations where children are unwanted and what happens to them...It's horrifying.