Saint Therese Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 I heard a co worker telling another coworker, " ..so I always tell people the older my kids get the more I believe in abortions". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laetitia crucis Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 Wow. That's disturbing. And sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apotheoun Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 That is sad. I wonder if your co-workers kids are for euthanizing the elderly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmotherofpirl Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 Sounds like a lovely promoter of planned parenthood I use the beginning of that sentence but I finish it with bootcamp, particularly if the child is about 13. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominicansoul Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 some people like to think abortion is not as serious as it really is...it's a joke to some... ...and still....some people are just dim-witted...this joke isn't even funny! I have grown up hearing similar things from parents, who, when their children or teens are tearing around or causing trouble, they like to make jokes about "birth control." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePenciledOne Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 [quote name='Saint Therese' date='16 February 2010 - 03:02 PM' timestamp='1266346920' post='2057949'] I heard a co worker telling another coworker, " ..so I always tell people the older my kids get the more I believe in abortions". [/quote] Sounds like such a wonderful parent. Not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apotheoun Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 A society that endorses infanticide will inevitably endorse parricide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thy Geekdom Come Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 [quote name='Apotheoun' date='16 February 2010 - 02:06 PM' timestamp='1266347175' post='2057954'] That is sad. I wonder if your co-workers kids are for euthanizing the elderly? [/quote] Perfect, albeit scary, reply. +1 Honestly, does the coworker not realize that s/he is saying, "I wish my child was dead"? I told this to my kids when they were asking about abortion and contraception. I said, "go home and ask your parents which of you they would rather had never lived." It seems appalling to many to say such a thing once the kids are older and we get to know and love them, but before that, then they're worthless? Crazy, mixed-up world... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilde Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 So, does she think it's ok to kill people just because they annoy you in some way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePenciledOne Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 The Catholic Church doesn't call current society the Culture of Death for no reason! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatherineM Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 I might have joked a few times about looking forward to being an empty-nester, but abortion should never be used like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HisChildForever Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 [quote name='CatherineM' date='16 February 2010 - 03:41 PM' timestamp='1266352891' post='2057992'] I might have joked a few times about looking forward to being an empty-nester, but abortion should never be used like that. [/quote] Yeah, because she essentially implied that she wishes she killed her kids in the womb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MithLuin Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 If called on it, I'm sure she'd say that she was only joking, and look very affronted that anyone would take her remark seriously. Or even say she meant something more along the lines of, "If I knew how hard being a parent was, I would have thought twice before becoming one." I am quite certain she would have denied wanting to kill her kids, either now or in the womb. But yeah, it is symptomatic of society that we can talk like that, and think of it as some sort of joke. Switzerland even defines abortion as a human right, since if a woman doesn't have access to abortions, she is in 'servitude' by being forced to carry a pregnancy to term. Pregnancy=slavery according to their laws! (Though, to be fair, they have a lot fewer abortions there than we do here.) I will also acknowledge that pregnancy can be quite the trying experience, it just seems a bit odd to codify it like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldenchild17 Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 [quote name='Saint Therese' date='16 February 2010 - 01:02 PM' timestamp='1266346920' post='2057949'] I heard a co worker telling another coworker, " ..so I always tell people the older my kids get the more I believe in abortions". [/quote] I would hope that her kids never have to overhear this discussion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Era Might Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 Go talk to people in nursing homes whose children never visit them. I doubt they wish that they had had abortions. Your children need you when they're young, and you'll need them when you're old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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