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Did Elizabeth Edwards Use Donor Eggs? (If so, where are the unused embryos?)
Slate ^ | October 29, 2004 | Suz Redfearn

Posted on 10/31/2004 7:46:57 PM PST by The Loan Arranger

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To: The Loan Arranger
Hmmm...I think I have a problem with the children being "fair game." It's one thing if they are slanderous jack@sses (Ex: Ron Reagan and Chris Heinz) and another if they are innocent small children or do rally the troops stops (Mary Cheney and Chelsea Clinton.)

We have enough class that we can win this without slinging this mud.
21 posted on 10/31/2004 8:03:11 PM PST by JanetteS
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In the abstract, I agree that this topic should be "out of bounds". As applied to this particular player, I'm constrained to ask the question:

Aren't they "fair game?"


22 posted on 10/31/2004 8:04:28 PM PST by ConorMacNessa
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To: The Loan Arranger

Politically irrelevant.


23 posted on 10/31/2004 8:07:54 PM PST by SlowBoat407 ("Don't bother giving me liberty: I'll take it for myself, thanks.")
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To: The Loan Arranger

I wouldn't even go here. If Cheney's grown daughter's are considered out of bounds, this is doublely so. These are real live children who may 'hear' things if this subject were to get too public.


24 posted on 10/31/2004 8:08:53 PM PST by WomanofStandard (Life is Hard, but God is Good)
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To: bwteim
you'd have to take it up with Slate.com

Doesn't mean we have to post it on FR. We can be bigger than they are.

25 posted on 10/31/2004 8:10:35 PM PST by Drango (NPR- When government funds a "news" outlet that has a bias...it's no longer news...it's propaganda.)
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To: The Loan Arranger; Admin Moderator

Why do you feel the need to stoop so low as to post a thread such as this?


26 posted on 10/31/2004 8:11:28 PM PST by arasina (So there.)
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To: Drango

No argument with me on that point.


27 posted on 10/31/2004 8:11:46 PM PST by bwteim (bwteim = Begin With The End In Mind)
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To: Gustafm1000
I can't believe Edwards could bring himself to procreate with that beast

He's a lawyer. He'd breed with weasels if it served his purposes.

Of course, you know what a weasel/lawyer pairing gets you . . . more lawyers.

28 posted on 10/31/2004 8:12:15 PM PST by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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To: mabelkitty
Johnny runs for Senate and buys a new family for political momentum.

Ding! One Kewpie Doll comin' up!

29 posted on 10/31/2004 8:13:46 PM PST by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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To: The Loan Arranger

"If so, where are the unused embryos?" if you knew, what was going to be your next move?


30 posted on 10/31/2004 8:18:42 PM PST by isom35
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To: Paul_B
"Or is this just more political calculation from the Party of cynicism, knowing this issue would be explosive among Evangelicals and RCs?"

I am anything but a defender of the Breck Girl and Liz, but if the fact Liz may have used donor eggs would be an "explosive" issue among evangelicals and religious conservatives, those particular evangelicals and religious conservatives should be ashamed of themselves.

This is nobody's business. Nobody's. I am amazed Slate would run this story.
31 posted on 10/31/2004 8:19:05 PM PST by NCPAC (Social Darwinists Unite!)
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To: Elvis van Foster

maybe.....they are not John's...


32 posted on 10/31/2004 8:19:07 PM PST by ArmyBratproud (Kerry wants to steal documents, taxes, my gun, etc. And now the commie punk wants to steal my vote.)
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Of course, whether the children are the progeny of Sen. Edwards or some other donor, the question posed in the title of the thread is legitimate.

What does Kerry, the self-styled "Catholic" candidate for Pres., who describes himself as being against abortion personally, but unwilling to impose his personal beliefs on that question upon society, think abour "selective abortion", or "reduction", or whatever other euphemism the death merchants have coined for the process under which his running mate's children were engendered?

Do you suppose John Edwards might have "channeled" with the male zygotes vying for the privilege of impregnating Mrs. Edwards and ascertained which among them were worthy of the privilege?


33 posted on 10/31/2004 8:19:57 PM PST by ConorMacNessa
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To: NCPAC

I would be fine if they would keep family matters to themselves. But when they crassly bring up Mary Cheney's lesbianism for political points, they open their own lives to scrutiny, because the issue has then become character.

And as the article points out, Ms. Edwards' silence here is uncharacteristic, especially considering she could do everyone, particularly her own kids, a lot of good by airing the issues of artificial insemination.

Of course, if they tossed fertilized eggs, they have reason to fear the airing of this issue.


34 posted on 10/31/2004 8:25:08 PM PST by Paul_B
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To: Paul_B

You know, what they said about Mary Cheney is irrelevant--two wrongs don't make a right. This is not an appropriate angle of "attack".


35 posted on 10/31/2004 8:31:36 PM PST by mcg1969
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To: Paul_B
I would be fine if they would keep family matters to themselves. But when they crassly bring up Mary Cheney's lesbianism for political points, they open their own lives to scrutiny, because the issue has then become character.

The paramount issue IMHO is two children, age three and six, who should find out from their parents, not taunting schoolmates, about the question raised in this article. At an age that their parents decide is appropriate. Which is certainly not six years old.

I cannot believe how low Slate has sunk. OTOH, maybe I can. No matter how you feel about John and Elizabeth Edwards, this is totally out of bounds.

36 posted on 10/31/2004 8:36:37 PM PST by freespirited
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To: kingattax

I'm sure Bill Clinton helped her out...

He seems to like fat chicks... *smile*


37 posted on 10/31/2004 8:52:36 PM PST by Nyboe
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To: Nyboe

LOL...he sure does


40 posted on 10/31/2004 9:08:53 PM PST by kingattax
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