"Having children is selfish. It's all about maintaining your genetic line at the expense of the planet," or so says a woman who aborted her child rather than "overburden" the earth. After talking about her abortion and sterilization she states the she and her husband "have a much nicer lifestyle as a result of not having children. We love walking and hiking, and we often go away for weekends. Every year, we also take a nice holiday - we've just come back from South Africa." I guess there is nothing selfish about that kind of attitude. And where did she meet the husband who shares her "unselfish" view of reproduction? At an animal rights demonstration, of course.
Read the entire depressing article from Britain's Daily Mail here.
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3 comments:
I suppose it could be said that doing whatever you want to do is selfish, whether that's having many children, or not being encumbered by children, or whatever.
But I don't think selfishness is in what you get.
I think selfishness is in what you take from others.
"I think selfishness is in what you take from others." That's a very good definition of selfishness. And if what you took from someone was their life, as the couple in the article did to their unborn child; that's pretty much the ultimate in selfishness.
It appears that she was responsible about trying very hard NOT to get pregnant, but her efforts were disregarded. There have been millions of terminated pregnancies that would never have happened, if it were not for efforts to withhold birth control.
You think she's selfish for having an abortion, fine, say that, but the post implies she is selfish for taking a vacation in South Africa.
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