Posted on 04/04/2009 10:54:35 AM PDT by wagglebee
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- US News & World Report contributing editor and PBS television show host Bonne Erbe came under fire for her celebration of abortion increases in light of the sour economy. Now, the media wallah is defending her position after hearing news that the use of food stamps has risen.
The use of food stamps, according to Agriculture Department figures, rose in all but four states during January and three states saw usage rise more than five percent.
"I blogged earlier this week about the rise in birth control usage and abortion due to the recession," Erbe writes today. "These figures back up my assertion that the last thing young, unemployed, or already large families should be doing is creating more mouths to feed."
Erbe complained more abortions are needed because "foods banks nationwide are reporting shortages and it's only going to get worse."
Earlier this week, Erbe celebrated the fact that women are turning to abortions who believe they can't afford to have a baby.
"The recession is driving American demand for contraception and for abortions. The media have been riven this past week with stories about the rising number of couples and single mothers doing the math and deciding this is no time to bring a child into the world," Erbe writes.
"The media have also been rife with stories portraying this trend as something of a tragedy," she continues. "Let me propose a counter view: it is not."
Erbe focused on a heart-wrenching story of one mother in a recent Associated Press report who indicated she decided to have an abortion of a baby who would have been her fourth child because she and her boyfriend can't afford to have the baby now that he lost his job.
"Can we agree that this unwed couple's decision not to bring a fourth child into the world when they are having trouble feeding themselves and three children is no tragedy?"
She called the abortion "no tragedy: it's a good decision."
Erbe complained that raising children "is expensive" to raise children and that the couple's abortion decision "benefits society."
Those benefits? More time with the children who didn't become victims of abortion and an assumption that the couple won't have to rely on public support by having a fourth child.
Colleen Raezler, a research assistant at the Culture and Media Institute, takes issue with Erbe's abortion promotion. She says Erbe is doing her readers and the public a disservice by not mentioning places that help women with the financial pressures that make them feel compelled to have an abortion.
"Erbe failed to mention the other resources, outside of government assistance, available to women who find themselves pregnant and in a precarious financial situation," she said.
"Crisis pregnancy centers across the nation can provide mothers assistance in the form of baby clothes, diapers and formula for their newborns," Raezler adds. "Adoption services are also available through a number of organizations such as Bethany Christian Services if a mother decides she cannot parent her child."
"But to note that would mean Erbe would have to acknowledge that conservatives do care about life, which she charged they don't in a March 29, 1997, Washington Times column" Raezler explains.
"Caring for a child on an already stretched budget is difficult but it is not as impossible as Erbe makes it out to be. But that's not really what's at issue in Erbe's post. The recession is simply one more way to promote her belief that abortion is nothing but a 'choice,'" she concludes.
Email your complaints about her new pro-abortion comments to bonnieerbe@CompuServe.com
Murder is ALWAYS a tragedy!
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Not if it's somebody these people don't want.
It’s a shame her Mom didn’t consider one!
Sub human scum.
Why the hell not! We have already agreed that the sanctity of marriage between men and women is meaningless, premarital sex is no big deal and that the profound emotional bond shared in the intimacy sex has been so devalued in that casual sex is the norm between any kind or type of partner is okay. Why should killing babies that are the inconvenient by product of our new "enlightenment" any big deal?
/sarc
Bonnie’s “messiah” told the Euro-peons the other day that we, the US taxpayers, need to provide money for “education” all over the world because one of those children might be the person who will come up with the answers to all of our energy problems by discovering a new source of “alternative energy”. My first thought was, what if that person is a child aborted by our tax dollars being used by the DemocRATS’ to fund their current abortion extravaganza?
But wouldn’t that make smoking a good thing. I mean, it reduces the surplus population.
I’m sick of these jackass tussies flapping their pieholes; but then I don’t have to listen to them. Children aren’t all that “expensive” when you take it a day at a time instead of having to have everything cut and dried for the next two decades and forego the designer clothes for the kids and for yourself. Shoot, ANYTHING can happen that changes the best laid plans of mice or men no matter how much one plans.
No kidding. My wife and I have been discussing when we will start our family and it seems to us that as you have more kids, the cost lessens in that you have more hand-me-downs and furniture, supplies that the older ones grow out of.
It might make things a little tight but you’d be surprised at how much money can be liberated when you forgo the wants and concentrate on the needs.
It’s our obligation to ourselves (If not just a Christian one) to have children. This woman is miserable.
She blames her Mother for not aborting her. How hateful.
Exactly.
There have been over 50 MILLION abortions in the US since 1973. A genius is defined as having an IQ in the 98th percentile, that means that we have killed over ONE MILLION geniuses. A genius along the lines of an Einstein probably comes along once every million people, so we have killed fifty of them; while this seems like a small number, it really isn't when you look at the number of people who have truly changed the world in any given century.
Yes, but why limit it to babies. Maybe we could have hunting season on obnoxious newspersons. There is obviously a surplus. Time to cull the herd.
Oh so true.
Nothing replaces the smile I get from my 2 year twin son & daughter. Nothing. It gives me a renewed purpose.
I would starve to death to feed them. I would thirst to death to give them water. Money is relative to the situation, and merely incidental.
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