Pete Singer and his fellow "bioethicists"
can always be counted on for creative ways of
dealing with "substandard" or "excess" progeny.
Posted on 01/15/2018 10:14:32 PM PST by Architect of Avalon
CANADA, January 15, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – “Procreation is becoming a global public health concern, rather than a personal decision,” a feminist wrote for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in an article trashing "Fixer Upper" stars Chip and Joanna Gaines for having a fifth child.
“It's not an exaggeration to say that the survival of our species depends” on population control, Kristen Pyszczyk wrote. Even though population control “carries with it associations with eugenics and other nasty historical events...we still need to talk about it.”
The Gaines couple of HGTV fame announced the existence of their fifth child by posting a photo on Instagram. In it, Chip and Joanna compare their bellies.
“Gaines party of 7.. (If you’re still confused.. WE ARE PREGNANT),” Chip wrote.
His wife shared a video of their baby’s heartbeat on Twitter.
Not everyone is happy the Gaines children each have a fourth sibling, though.
Quoting Stephen Hawking and speculating that humans might need to colonize another planet within 100 years to survive, Pyszczyk urged, “let's lighten the load, friends.”
The idea that procreation is fulfilling needs to be challenged, Pyszczyk wrote, and “women need to be presented with options for a fulfilling life that don't involve taking 20 years of their lives to care for offspring.”
It’s “great” that people are beginning to react in a hostile way to large families, she wrote, but “we need to go much farther.”
Citing carbon footprints, Pyszczyk argued those in the “global West” must be given “alternatives” to the natural family.
“This inevitably involves calling out people who have kids like they're going out of style,” Pyszczyk wrote. “Shame is a powerful tool for changing behaviour: it's how we introduce new and existing social conventions. It's unfortunate that Chip and Joanna bore the brunt of changing attitudes, but let's learn from the reaction and examine our own actions.”
“Procreation is becoming a global public health concern, rather than a personal decision,” she insisted. “So when people do irresponsible things like having five children, we absolutely need to be calling them out.”
Pyszczyk admitted that Canada’s birth rates are plummeting, but suggested that Trump restricting funding for international abortion organizations may increase immigration to Canada.
Pyszczyk also claimed that “as a feminist, I tend to oppose any cultural conversation that involves telling a woman what to do with her body.”
Nevertheless, “changing the narrative around motherhood should help to offset some of the cultural conditioning we receive throughout our lives” and “it's not OK to have five kids without once considering adoption.”
“There are so many children in North America and beyond in need of loving homes, yet adoption rates in many areas are lagging,” she complained.
There are 114,556 children waiting to be adopted in the U.S., according to the Adoption Network Law Center. More than half a million babies are aborted annually in the U.S. Some states do not require facilities to report how many abortions they commit, so an exact number is unavailable.
There have been 60 million abortions since Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court case legalizing abortion on demand.
In November 2017, NBC printed an article in which a bioethicist argued having many children is immoral like releasing murderers from prison.
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I am so appalled by this rubbish.
God welcomes children into the world. If MORE good people like these folks had more beautiful children to add to the world, it surely would be a much better place.
There goes a woman’s right to choose.
Then she had better call out welfare recipients including all migrants who are having 5 or 6 kids( the more kids, the more money they rake in)......this includes muslims also.
Just sayin.....if she wants to be fair and balanced.
Liberals, however, are notoriously unbalanced.
Just saw an old “X Files” episode with a name just like that of Psyzczyk’s. In this episode, two girls went crazy due to a confluence of the planets and killed young teenage boys.
Maybe the new “X-Files” will do an episode based on “Psyzczyk’s” name. Might be entitled “Batshit Crazy, Again”.
>> If MORE good people like these folks had more beautiful children to add to the world, it surely would be a much better place.
Exactly.
Can you comment on your handle?
These nutjobs only get upset when it’s a white family having a bunch of kids.
Pete Singer and his fellow "bioethicists"
can always be counted on for creative ways of
dealing with "substandard" or "excess" progeny.
By all means lets begin talking about the collapsing birth rates around the world, and how first world countries are having to import millions of people from non functional countries just to avoid a population collapse.
The idea that procreation is fulfilling needs to be challenged, Pyszczyk wrote, and “women need to be presented with options for a fulfilling life that don’t involve taking 20 years of their lives to care for offspring.
Oh man, you mean instead of raising my kids these last 20 years, I could have been a set gofer for Harvey Weinstein? Damn! My life will have to go unfulfilled.
Get rid of the illegals and we won’t have to worry about over population.
The problem with to many children is whom they are born to and what will be their place in society as productive or non productive. I have two children. My wife has three children. All our children are from former marriages. In effect we have an average of 2.5 children. All our children are educated with degrees. All our children are productive.
At a 2.5 per couple we are marginally above replacement level for society. However, when one considers war and disease it is probably just about replacement level.
Our children are not a burden on society. They are taxed by society.
ps
Before any racist comments are made, I am very white and my wife is a very lovely shade of Mexican brown and we both love all our kids dearly.
Well, this dope is unlikely to have any ... the Gaines’ are just have her share too.
So, I don’t see a problem.
Pyszczyk? With no vowels at all in her surname, she may well be the purest of earth and animal worshipers. I feel for her neighbors, if they haven’t all been driven away from their homes by regulations.
She needs to shame people in sh*thole countries, where having 8 to 10 kids is the norm. And then those kids come here to screw up our country because theirs is a sh*thole.
Procreation of ignorant people is the problem.
I’ve changed my opinion on this for reasons I will not state publicly, but it’s up to couples on how they wish to proceed. I hope they have a healthy baby.
Shut up feminazi. It’s none of your business. I bet you anything she’s all for unlimited immigration.
Somewhat related:
The environmentalist’s case against a free-wheeling immigration policy [October 2016]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3622446/posts
Writer should shame third world leaders for uncontrolled birth rates in their countries! They are having children they can not take care of!
Leave Chip & Joanna alone. They can raise and take care of their children!
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