Something that makes me slightly sick inside

Jun 21, 2007 19:34

So, I watch a LiveJournal group that has rather controversial posts - it's about debating abortions ( Read more... )

religion, abortion, health

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kakaze June 22 2007, 07:43:47 UTC
Oh christ!

The assholes have incorporated and are taking "donations". Is it too much to hope that god decides to call them up to heaven too...preferably in a slow and painful way?

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applegoddess June 22 2007, 10:09:08 UTC
They also have a 2bd apartment, one car seat, and one stroller.

What's ridiculous is that it's not like they didn't have any money for the pricey Follistim. It's not like they are financially ruined, because you'd have to be nuts to go as far as to take Follistim to raise chances of a pregnancy when you can't afford it and won't be able to. And they brought this upon themselves. They decided to go this route, they decided to give birth to all 6, they decided to possibly fuck up their kids lives by giving birth to them so prematurely (oh, average gestation is 29 weeks and average weight is 2.5lbs? wow, newsflash, your babies hardly weigh a pound and they were born at the very edge of the limit of viability, where 1% survive...)...

They don't deserve a lot of the donations and news coverage they have gotten and might get. It's really depressing.

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punk_apple June 22 2007, 11:03:08 UTC
Also "They have one nurse attending to each baby 24 hours a day" .. wow that must be cheap...
Also they could afford this .. http://morrison6.com/just-for-fun/42#more-42 so to do nothing all day but grow the parassites and be visited by doctors etc.
Sigh.
I would use the word YGWYPF ... you get what you pay for, or you get the plants that you grow the seeds for ..

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punk_apple June 22 2007, 11:09:31 UTC
oh, and from their site, "31 sets of sextuplets have survived infancy world-wide" ... yea such big chances right. Of a few more than 31 sextuplets born worldwide..

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applegoddess June 22 2007, 18:29:59 UTC
That statement is really vague :(

However, going from THEIR facts, 12 had survived in the US. 27 sets had some/all babies die. To top that off, as it stands right now, the remaining babies were born weeks before the average, and weigh less than half the average weight, so even if the chances of having a full set were bad enough pre-birth, they are that much lower right now.

obviously things aren't that great right now, but even looking at the facts they KNEW pre-birth - the odds that they would have all 6 were very low. and looking at more facts from the website they got them from - the lightest birthweight was 9lbs for a set of 6 that survived. And the lightest birthweight for a set where only one survived is ironically similar to the heaviest birthweight for the current family.

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punk_apple June 23 2007, 00:21:20 UTC
.. so yea. abortion = bad, playing god...
ivf= good, NOT playing goood...

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applegoddess June 22 2007, 18:22:14 UTC
i know! and the same goes to all the other couples who give birth to these many children. Although some cases of multiple births are natural and when that happens, perhaps I would understand donations, the vast majority of these cases are due to IVF/fertility drugs. They're not very cheap, and it's something you'd have to go out of your way to do. So when they do this to themselves, what's the idea of setting up donations? Or anyone who is related or is a friend...can't they understand that if they had the money to do this in the first place, had options to abort or let someone else adopt (or...a baby died) that perhaps donations are retarded and the money should go elsewhere to a more worthy cause?

It's just like...zomg! medical miracle! please donate!..um, what's the flipping point? there are others dealing with rare as hell medical conditions that would benefit from donations. you guys are just taking advantage of others. argh.

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