Happy heartless Mother's Day

New York Times ^ | May 9, 2006 | Natalie Angier

[zipper]

As much as we may like to believe that mother animals are designed to nurture and protect their young, to fight to the death, if need be, to keep their offspring alive, in fact, nature abounds with mothers that defy the standard maternal script in a raft of macabre ways.

There are mothers that zestily eat their young and mothers that drink their young's blood. Mothers that pit one young against the other in a fight to the death and mothers that raise one set of their babies on the flesh of their siblings.

Among several mammals, including lions, mice, and monkeys, females will either spontaneously abort their fetuses or abandon their newborns when times prove rocky or a new male swaggers into town.

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[zipper]

This was just below the story "Baby deaths hit 4 million in first month" on the Commercial Appeal home page, which of course really means the 10th month, but we don't talk about what happens to those babies.

This coupling of stories so close to Mother's Day vaguely reminds me of the feminist Oxygen channel, the women's network that, on Father's Day some years ago, showed the movie "The Stepfather" detailing the brutal murder of an entire family.

This peculiar feature appears to be a rationalization of abortion-- an attempt to show that nature is full of examples of mothers killing or starving their babies-- for the good of the species, of course. Thus in humans selective abortion must be a good thing, since everyone knows only unwanted babies are aborted. So Happy Mother's Day from the New York Times to all those enlightened, independent women who might have otherwise brought those 40 million or so unviable tissue masses out of their wombs alive.

[se_ohio_young_conservative]

Mothers get pregnant and then lay on a table while a doctor destroys their unborn baby.

totally satanic.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

This peculiar feature appears to be a rationalization of abortion-- an attempt to show that nature is full of examples of mothers killing or starving their babies-- for the good of the species, of course.

Someone should tell the New York Times that dogs lick their genitals and urinate on fire hydrants ... but that's no reason why we should do it.

[Aussie Dasher]

I wonder how these mothers feel, knowing that they have killed their own child. A crime against God and man.

[zipper]

And some of them eat their own poop, and drink out of toilets!

LOL

[marsh_of_mists]

And this is why humans are and always will be superior to animals

[zipper]

I wonder how these mothers feel, knowing that they have killed their own child. A crime against God and man.

It's a known fact that most women who have abortions have a form of post-traumatic stress, aka guilt, and Mother's Day is a reminder of the deed. This story appears to try to placate those "Sex and the City" type females that need to feel what they did was nothing to feel depressed about.

[lastchance]

Too late. Journalists already do those things. How do you think they got hired by the NYT?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Ah, at least they don't make their fetuses feud.

[Bronzy]

You must know that abortion is not the gospel...how can I say it?.. issues...The women who aborted are now becoming grandmothers .....so the abortionists of the 70's are now having grand babies.

[opinionator]

Justification for euthanasia? 4th trimester abortions?

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Too late. Journalists already do those things.

True. And they also get stuck together when having sex.

[zipper]

The women who aborted are now becoming grandmothers .....so the abortionists of the 70's are now having grand babies.

Plenty old enough for them to realize they can't compensate by having more children, to realize the murderous act can never be undone; plenty of time for them to wonder what the aborted children might have turned out like.

[zipper]

routine in China, especially for girls

[lastchance]

Single cell life forms have sex??? I will have to update that biology text.

[Bronzy]

Yeah, I am back and hear you. Some of the womem who aborted are not grandmothers because they raised their baby girls to be ....