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10 Dec 2008, 9:13 pm

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I agree that everyone should be able to choose when they wish to produce offspring, but I feel that parents shouldn't be allowed to reproduce that late. It's unfair on the children and is only selfish.

The government has no right to tell anyone not to reproduce.



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10 Dec 2008, 9:35 pm

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Terry Fox ran halfway across Canada with one prosthetic leg. Do you think God was trying to prevent him from running by taking away one of his legs? I think not.

That goes for everyone else who's ever overcome a handicap.


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11 Dec 2008, 11:06 pm

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I don't like the fact that they did it for the male heir a lot more than just the fact that the woman is a dinosaur...


Like how people in Canada prefer a baby girl, the Chinese and Indians prefer boys. Traditional reasons. Again, in parts of India, like Kerela and Meghalaya, a baby girl is prefered due to the dominant matriachal society.

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I strongly suspect it has something do with the fact that India has a ridiculous amount of people within its borders. Their sheer numbers are distorting their DNA.


Unfortunately, India has a high fertility rate. Government family planning attempts have completely failed.



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11 Dec 2008, 11:11 pm

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Unfortunately, India has a high fertility rate. Government family planning attempts have completely failed.


I don't want to come off as ignorant but isn't that because they won't use....erm..protection?


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11 Dec 2008, 11:43 pm

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Wow. That's pretty old. Good for her!

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In India, it's common to abort female fetuses, although it is illegal for doctors to reveal the sex of a fetus to pregnant parents.


Why is it illegal? to stop people from aborting based on the sex of the child? What about people who aren't going to abort? what if *they* want to find out? That is unfair.


Its a security against people aborting healthy children based on sex, yes. It may seem "unfair" to you, but in a culture where female gender can be a death sentence to an unborn child, its an unfairness that saves lives. If they just went round telling them all the sex, how many would carry to term? It would increase the abortion rate of girls exponentially.

Some laws are not there to be arbitrary, or mean, or controlling. They are there to help.


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12 Dec 2008, 1:30 am

i just cant care no matter how hard i try



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12 Dec 2008, 1:39 am

We know, but at least you cared enough to post.


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12 Dec 2008, 1:45 pm

I think it's unfair of them to have a child at their age just so that they can have a male heir. It sounds a bit selfish.



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12 Dec 2008, 1:51 pm

Macbeth wrote:
ShadesOfMe wrote:
Wow. That's pretty old. Good for her!

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In India, it's common to abort female fetuses, although it is illegal for doctors to reveal the sex of a fetus to pregnant parents.


Why is it illegal? to stop people from aborting based on the sex of the child? What about people who aren't going to abort? what if *they* want to find out? That is unfair.


Its a security against people aborting healthy children based on sex, yes. It may seem "unfair" to you, but in a culture where female gender can be a death sentence to an unborn child, its an unfairness that saves lives. If they just went round telling them all the sex, how many would carry to term? It would increase the abortion rate of girls exponentially.

Some laws are not there to be arbitrary, or mean, or controlling. They are there to help.


That's true.



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12 Dec 2008, 2:09 pm

Idiotic parents. Those children are almost guaranteed to become orphans before they are fully grown.

It's completely unnatural to have children at that age.


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12 Dec 2008, 3:10 pm

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Idiotic parents. Those children are almost guaranteed to become orphans before they are fully grown.

It's completely unnatural to have children at that age.


a lot of medical advances are unatural and im sure glad we have them



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12 Dec 2008, 7:40 pm

Eggman wrote:
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Idiotic parents. Those children are almost guaranteed to become orphans before they are fully grown.

It's completely unnatural to have children at that age.


a lot of medical advances are unatural and im sure glad we have them


A lot of medical advances are indeed unnatural, but they at least have a positive impact. This particular event has a negative impact on the children, as the chances are that the parents will die before the child becomes an adult.

I guess you could say it has a positive impact on the parents due to the fact that they have a child. But then it comes down to a person's gain at another's suffering.

As for someone who said that the government has no right to tell us not to reproduce, they never made an attempt to stop us reproducing naturally. But when people are reproducing artificially at an age which they are not suitable to be parents that's a different story. At the age of 72 as this mother is, people are unable to reproduce naturally because they are not suitable to be parents.


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12 Dec 2008, 9:32 pm

ShadesOfMe wrote:
Wow. That's pretty old. Good for her!

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In India, it's common to abort female fetuses, although it is illegal for doctors to reveal the sex of a fetus to pregnant parents.


Why is it illegal? to stop people from aborting based on the sex of the child? What about people who aren't going to abort? what if *they* want to find out? That is unfair.
Why is it illegal? to stop people from aborting based on the sex of the child? What about people who aren't going to abort? what if *they* want to find out? That is unfair.[/quote]

well places like that it will mean life or death for the child



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13 Dec 2008, 12:22 am

I think it was too much of a risk--too much risk of losing the babies or ending up dead herself--to be ethical.


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13 Dec 2008, 1:32 am

m91 wrote:
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Idiotic parents. Those children are almost guaranteed to become orphans before they are fully grown.

It's completely unnatural to have children at that age.


a lot of medical advances are unatural and im sure glad we have them


A lot of medical advances are indeed unnatural, but they at least have a positive impact. This particular event has a negative impact on the children, as the chances are that the parents will die before the child becomes an adult.

I guess you could say it has a positive impact on the parents due to the fact that they have a child. But then it comes down to a person's gain at another's suffering.

As for someone who said that the government has no right to tell us not to reproduce, they never made an attempt to stop us reproducing naturally. But when people are reproducing artificially at an age which they are not suitable to be parents that's a different story. At the age of 72 as this mother is, people are unable to reproduce naturally because they are not suitable to be parents.


Could live to their 1003...
a 25 year old womwn may die in child birth

Ment 100



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13 Dec 2008, 2:06 am

eeeeeeeek.