[Lady Sidhe]

1. I'm not looking to win adherents. People have their own opinions on this, and trying to change them won't do any good.

2. I'm more worried about the potential children. These people are in institutions that should screen employees a hell of a lot better, and watch them a hell of a lot better, than they do. However, there's no excuse for the clients not to be on NORPLANT. Some people shouldn't reproduce. Period. It just ends up hurting the kids.

3. The SOB who raped the girl should be put in a cell with Bubba for the rest of his life. I'm not sorry for thinking that way, either.

Some people can't take responsibility for themselves, and it's up to the people who are supposed to be taking care of them to do so. That doesn't always happen, and there's nothing I can do about that. But there are ways to minimize the damage, and ways to punish the offenders, if they'd just do it.


Seems we have more care for stray animals than we do for human beings. We'll sterilize a stray so it won't have unwanted babies, but god forbid we do it to humans so THEY won't have unwanted babies. Unwanteds are unwanteds. They all suffer. So what's the problem with preventing the suffering in the first place?

All people see is the word "sterilization," and they lose their minds. They don't think of the larger picture, or the ramifications of all these unwanted children. To them, I say the same thing I say to anti-DP folks:

You take these kids home with you when they're born, and take care of them. If you're not willing to do that, then don't complain when someone puts forth an idea you don't like.

I don't have any personal animosity towards people who are mentally slow. And I don't have any problem with functionally retarded people having children. I just don't think that people who can't take care of themselves should be able to give birth to people they can't take care of, who will end up being abused by the system, whether the system intends to abuse them or not.


Sidhe