When One (baby) Is Enough (ultimate in cold selfishness)

nytimes ^ | July 18, 2004 | AMY RICHARDS as told to AMY BARRETT

[redgolum]

Can't say much except that this is sick. She killed her own children to be "comfortable".


I fear the thermostat in hell is not adjustable.

[Ohioan from Florida]

Hi, Kimmie! Life is precious, and it's awful that there are so many who are blind although they have eyes to see with!

[Ohioan from Florida]

I think I'm gonna go get sick now...

[MEGoody]

"My immediate response was, I cannot have triplets. I was not married"

That was easily fixed. But you and 'Peter' were to selfish to put the needs of your children ahead of your own.

[MEGoody]

"But I had a recurring feeling that this was going to come back and haunt me."

I'm sure it already does, every night, when you are laying there in the dark. And it will continue to haunt you the rest of your life. . .you murdered two of your own children.

[Ohioan from Florida]

I couldn't agree more. It's only a hop, skip, and a jump to euthansia. Do you think this is what early Nazi Germany was like? It's like the right-to-live isn't really what it means, it's the right to have a "quality of life" that someone else determines. God help us. It's horrifying to see how far we've sunk as a society. Were the barbarians really any worse? This is barbaric to me!

[MEGoody]

"Get over it. 'God' did."

On judgment day, the author (and you) will find out that God didn't get over this after all.

[Ohioan from Florida]

She probably didn't look at the sonogram. I understand what you mean about the paper feeling "dirty". IMHO that's how we should feel when coming face to face with evil. We shouldn't want to be anywhere near it.

[LTM]

She is going to burn in hell for killing two innocent babies...and ruining the life of an innocent child.

[snowstorm12]

Put a two-year-old out in the wild with no human intervention. According to the above statement, a two-year-old is not a human being because it can't keep it's own body alive for any significant length of time without human intervention, right? Conclusion: killing a two-year old is okay, correct? And don't give me the "artificial means" excuse. Either the child is capable of living without "human intervention" or it isn't. Don't impose a bunch of artificial conditions in order to find a loophole for infanticide.

Viability is the correct line because the 2 year old child is viable and deserves rights because it's viable fully developed but dependant. Embryos and fetus are nonviable because they need to use a viable cooperative person to create or build itself. The 2 year old is already fully created. The parents are guardians not owners of the child. People own their embryos in ivf clinics.

[strictlyaminorleaguer]

How inclined will her son be to keep her alive when she becomes a burden? We can only hope and pray that she is cured of her soul-sickness before she passes it on to him.

[Ohioan from Florida]

So true! I also pray that she's cured before she disposes of her own mother or other relatives that are older. They'll probably need her help sooner than she'll need her son's. How uncaring will she be at that point?

[kimmie7]

Hi OfF! Long time no 'see'! Yes, life is precious. It sends me into a blind rage when someone talks the 'viability' talk. Preemies that would never have survived even 10 years ago are doing great now! That has nothing to do with humaniy, and everything to do with the breath of God.

[georgiadevildog]

"2 year old child is viable and deserves rights because it's viable fully developed but dependant."

Wrong. A 2-year-old is not fully developed. Immune system requires special care, and the reproductive system isn't functional yet--it is still developing.

The argument you are trying to use is simply another excuse for murder. Don't come in here talking about "ownership" of embryos. Abortion stops a beating heart. Period.

[aodell]

I hadn't seen this until today. The "me generation" in all its glory. Disgusting.

[Aquinasfan]

I'm not, however, a single issue voter.

You should be. Don't be apathetic anymore.

[Aquinasfan]

This gal is the ultimate anti-Laura. As I recall, Laura Bush was on bed rest for quite some time to ensure a healthy birth for Barbara and Jenna.

Laura's pro-abortion. Frankly, I find her to be just as creepy.

[Aquinasfan]

Why would you purposefully create three babies when you only want one?

Why would you let three Jews live when you only want one?

[Aquinasfan]

Amy expected to use her degree in Art History to work in a museum or gallery. Instead, after she organized Freedom Summer ’92, a cross-country voter registration drive, Amy went on to co-found the Third Wave Foundation, a national organization for young feminist activists between the ages of 15 and 30.

Mothers, don't let your kids grow up to be college grads.

[Aquinasfan]

So you're saying he should have talked more, I guess. She just doesn't sound like a person willing to be persuaded to me.

If you're in the room, and the baby is about to be murdered, you act as you would if a man was threatening your child with a knife.