Comments on: Let’s Also Try Giving Water To Drowning Birds! http://conservablogs.com/haemet/2008/06/20/lets-also-try-giving-water-to-drowning-birds/ The Truth Will Set You Free- John 8:32 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:05:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: The “teen pregnancy pact” « 4Simpsons Blog - Eternity Matters http://conservablogs.com/haemet/2008/06/20/lets-also-try-giving-water-to-drowning-birds/#comment-1262 The “teen pregnancy pact” « 4Simpsons Blog - Eternity Matters Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:52:24 +0000 http://conservablogs.com/haemet/2008/06/20/lets-also-try-giving-water-to-drowning-birds/#comment-1262 [...] pro-life blogger extraordinaire Roxanne De Luca noted: This blogger’s take: giving contraception to people who want to get pregnant is like [...] […] pro-life blogger extraordinaire Roxanne De Luca noted: This blogger’s take: giving contraception to people who want to get pregnant is like […]

]]> By: Better sex education should be a family value - The Traveling Gnome - Claire St. Amant http://conservablogs.com/haemet/2008/06/20/lets-also-try-giving-water-to-drowning-birds/#comment-1260 Better sex education should be a family value - The Traveling Gnome - Claire St. Amant Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:56:05 +0000 http://conservablogs.com/haemet/2008/06/20/lets-also-try-giving-water-to-drowning-birds/#comment-1260 [...] with the recent national increase in teen pregnancy. Enter the conservatives, like the author of this blog, who equates making birth control available to “giving drowning birds water.” While the [...] […] with the recent national increase in teen pregnancy. Enter the conservatives, like the author of this blog, who equates making birth control available to “giving drowning birds water.” While the […]

]]> By: Teresa http://conservablogs.com/haemet/2008/06/20/lets-also-try-giving-water-to-drowning-birds/#comment-1259 Teresa Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:37:30 +0000 http://conservablogs.com/haemet/2008/06/20/lets-also-try-giving-water-to-drowning-birds/#comment-1259 Sam, Please point out to me the words that say having children is terrible? Since I've done it myslef a couple of times, I hardly think that it's terrible. Just that some people overly romanticize it and fill little girls heads with stupid and unrealistic ideas of what it's like...like for instance giving them the impression that babies are a guarantee of feeling a non-stop flow of unconditional love. You know, some days they do nothing but scream at you for no reason you can figure out, and they don't stop until they vomit on you and fall asleep. It's not terrible...but it isn't all ice-cream and puppies either. :-) <em>Teresa's last blog post..<a href='http://www.anomalousdata.com/Crazy+Rambling+NutBag+Book+Award+Vote+Now.aspx' rel="nofollow">Crazy, Rambling, Nut-Bag book award. Vote Now!</a></em> Sam,

Please point out to me the words that say having children is terrible?

Since I’ve done it myslef a couple of times, I hardly think that it’s terrible.

Just that some people overly romanticize it and fill little girls heads with stupid and unrealistic ideas of what it’s like…like for instance giving them the impression that babies are a guarantee of feeling a non-stop flow of unconditional love.

You know, some days they do nothing but scream at you for no reason you can figure out, and they don’t stop until they vomit on you and fall asleep.

It’s not terrible…but it isn’t all ice-cream and puppies either. :-)
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]]> By: Sam Pierce http://conservablogs.com/haemet/2008/06/20/lets-also-try-giving-water-to-drowning-birds/#comment-1257 Sam Pierce Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:17:47 +0000 http://conservablogs.com/haemet/2008/06/20/lets-also-try-giving-water-to-drowning-birds/#comment-1257 Thank you. <em>Sam Pierce's last blog post..<a href='http://conservablogs.com/conservativecommonman/2008/06/22/wapo-laments-racism-then-gleefully-banks-on-it/' rel="nofollow">WaPo Laments Racism… Then Gleefully Banks On It!</a></em> Thank you.

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]]> By: Roxeanne de Luca http://conservablogs.com/haemet/2008/06/20/lets-also-try-giving-water-to-drowning-birds/#comment-1256 Roxeanne de Luca Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:54:47 +0000 http://conservablogs.com/haemet/2008/06/20/lets-also-try-giving-water-to-drowning-birds/#comment-1256 Teresa, Absent evidence that these girls were coerced or pushed into becoming mothers, I think we can take this story at face value. The young women said they felt unloved - not that they weren't fulfilling a godly function. I also find it a bit strange to infer that the Church pushed them into being unwed mothers, given that the Church is so stridently opposed to premarital sex. I've met my share of Catholic women, but none who wanted to fulfill her duty as a mother before getting married. Sam - congratulations. :) Teresa,

Absent evidence that these girls were coerced or pushed into becoming mothers, I think we can take this story at face value. The young women said they felt unloved - not that they weren’t fulfilling a godly function. I also find it a bit strange to infer that the Church pushed them into being unwed mothers, given that the Church is so stridently opposed to premarital sex. I’ve met my share of Catholic women, but none who wanted to fulfill her duty as a mother before getting married.

Sam - congratulations. :)

]]> By: Sam Pierce http://conservablogs.com/haemet/2008/06/20/lets-also-try-giving-water-to-drowning-birds/#comment-1254 Sam Pierce Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:55:26 +0000 http://conservablogs.com/haemet/2008/06/20/lets-also-try-giving-water-to-drowning-birds/#comment-1254 Thanks for setting things straight Teresa, I'll let my wife know what a terrible thing she is doing (carrying our sixth child.) <em>Sam Pierce's last blog post..<a href='http://conservablogs.com/conservativecommonman/2008/06/22/wapo-laments-racism-then-gleefully-banks-on-it/' rel="nofollow">WaPo Laments Racism… Then Gleefully Banks On It!</a></em> Thanks for setting things straight Teresa, I’ll let my wife know what a terrible thing she is doing (carrying our sixth child.)

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]]> By: Teresa http://conservablogs.com/haemet/2008/06/20/lets-also-try-giving-water-to-drowning-birds/#comment-1253 Teresa Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:31:02 +0000 http://conservablogs.com/haemet/2008/06/20/lets-also-try-giving-water-to-drowning-birds/#comment-1253 "Catholicism is certainly beside the point: is anyone really claiming that a bunch of Jews and Methodists would never have this problem?" Depends on the church and the priest. There are more than a few out there who get a little heavy-handed, and can give the impression that the ultimate function of a woman is to bear children and be a mother...infusing the whole subject with a romance and mysticism that reality is hard-pressed to compete with. Perhaps these young girls have absorbed the promises of the motherhood at the end of the abstinance without being convinced to wait until adulthood for such a blessed experience. After all, the holy mother was a teenager... :-) <em>Teresa's last blog post..<a href='http://www.anomalousdata.com/Crazy+Rambling+NutBag+Book+Award+Vote+Now.aspx' rel="nofollow">Crazy, Rambling, Nut-Bag book award. Vote Now!</a></em> “Catholicism is certainly beside the point: is anyone really claiming that a bunch of Jews and Methodists would never have this problem?”

Depends on the church and the priest. There are more than a few out there who get a little heavy-handed, and can give the impression that the ultimate function of a woman is to bear children and be a mother…infusing the whole subject with a romance and mysticism that reality is hard-pressed to compete with.

Perhaps these young girls have absorbed the promises of the motherhood at the end of the abstinance without being convinced to wait until adulthood for such a blessed experience.

After all, the holy mother was a teenager… :-)
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]]> By: Roxeanne de Luca http://conservablogs.com/haemet/2008/06/20/lets-also-try-giving-water-to-drowning-birds/#comment-1252 Roxeanne de Luca Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:47:27 +0000 http://conservablogs.com/haemet/2008/06/20/lets-also-try-giving-water-to-drowning-birds/#comment-1252 Thank you, Neil. :) Agree - we ought to stop giving them money, either way. I'm not quite sure why the federal government feels the need to tax us and redistribute the money for such projects (it seems as if concerned citizens can donate, in proportion to their numbers and their concern) anyway.... Thank you, Neil. :)

Agree - we ought to stop giving them money, either way. I’m not quite sure why the federal government feels the need to tax us and redistribute the money for such projects (it seems as if concerned citizens can donate, in proportion to their numbers and their concern) anyway….

]]> By: Neil http://conservablogs.com/haemet/2008/06/20/lets-also-try-giving-water-to-drowning-birds/#comment-1251 Neil Sat, 21 Jun 2008 04:45:12 +0000 http://conservablogs.com/haemet/2008/06/20/lets-also-try-giving-water-to-drowning-birds/#comment-1251 "This blogger’s take: giving contraception to people who want to get pregnant is like giving a fire extinguisher to an arsonist." Great illustration! I'm always amazed that the Planned Parenthood types blame everything on abstinence. They seem to have cashed hundreds of millions of $$ of checks from the government. Have they no accountability for what happens? If so, then we should stop giving them money (actually, we should stop giving them money either way). <em>Neil's last blog post..<a href='http://4simpsons.wordpress.com/2008/06/20/the-audacity-of-being-an-abortion-survivor/' rel="nofollow">The audacity of being an abortion survivor</a></em> “This blogger’s take: giving contraception to people who want to get pregnant is like giving a fire extinguisher to an arsonist.”

Great illustration! I’m always amazed that the Planned Parenthood types blame everything on abstinence. They seem to have cashed hundreds of millions of $$ of checks from the government. Have they no accountability for what happens? If so, then we should stop giving them money (actually, we should stop giving them money either way).

Neil’s last blog post..The audacity of being an abortion survivor

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