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You will "let" Arizona declare pregnancy starting at the BEGINNING of ovulation, and "let" these backwards states declare "Personhood"

But let a widow bear children thru artificial insemination, and her husband's SS bennies don't apply? what kind of scam is this anyway? it's okay to act lofty and god-like when there's "no money involved"?

I see, so most conservatives are really "pro choice" when it comes to their skinny little pocketbooks and wallets

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They'd never admit it but....a lot of their feelings are less around the "life" and more around making someone "pay a price" for their presumably untoward behavior.
 
exactly.
know why?
because they still are feeding on the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and thinking it is the tree of life.
 
I don't get it....why would this widow want to bear children when she doesn't have a husband, and the kids' father is dead? Are fathers THAT expendable that you bear their offspring even though they'll never know him? And what made her think she could afford to raise them?

I really, really don't understand this kind of thinking: "my husband dead, and aw what the hell, I'll take some of his sperm here and have his kids, even though he'll never see them and they'll never know him. I know I can't afford them, so I'll just let the state support them...."

WTF?
 
I don't get it....why would this widow want to bear children when she doesn't have a husband, and the kids' father is dead? Are fathers THAT expendable that you bear their offspring even though they'll never know him? And what made her think she could afford to raise them?

I really, really don't understand this kind of thinking: "my husband dead, and aw what the hell, I'll take some of his sperm here and have his kids, even though he'll never see them and they'll never know him. I know I can't afford them, so I'll just let the state support them...."

WTF?

And so why is it again that married couples would store eggs, sperm, embryos or even get married? Might they actually love one another and the widow, having lost a husband she loves desire to see at least some of that husband in children she still might be able to have?

Are you suggesting there is some economical reason to NOT have children?
 
Are you suggesting there is some economical reason to NOT have children?[/QUOTE]

lets see,,,is there any economical reason to not have children? not if you dont have to economically support them......is there any economical reason to not work to support your family? not if somebody else supports them....is there any economical reason to not have a new car, home, wardrobe, jewelry, big screen tv, $500.00 tennis shoes, unlimited credit cards? not if you dont have to pay for them.....nope,,,no reason at all......its all very progressive...i like it...sign me up...
 
Can't say I disagree in this specific case, Barb. If she had the kids because she counted on posthumous SS to raise them, that wasn't right. Kind of a weird case, and I sympathize with her wanting to have his children, but that doesn't translate into the SS system being responsible to raise children born after the SS recipient's death. They were neither his choice nor his responsibility, let alone his legal beneficiaries.

I think his legitimate beneficiaries would agree if he didn't have a will. Especially if he had a fortune. You can't go creating new beneficiaries to someone's will after death. Same principle for government benefits. Your estate (even if it's nothing but spousal SS) can't accrue new dependents after you're dead.
 
Are you suggesting there is some economical reason to NOT have children?

lets see,,,is there any economical reason to not have children? not if you dont have to economically support them......is there any economical reason to not work to support your family? not if somebody else supports them....is there any economical reason to not have a new car, home, wardrobe, jewelry, big screen tv, $500.00 tennis shoes, unlimited credit cards? not if you dont have to pay for them.....nope,,,no reason at all......its all very progressive...i like it...sign me up...[/QUOTE]

Is there some reason to support people who make $20 million annually who have 3,4 or 5 homes? The reason I suggested the economical reason is that Barbella and some others are constantly suggesting that economical reasons are NO excuse for anyone that would want to terminate a pregnacy on their terms and their opinion of what some others are claiming to be a time before birth when an unfertilized egg, an embryo, a fetus acquires the legal rights of a child even though it is as yet unborn and without artificial aid and assistance is less likely to survive outside the womb than it would be to remain in the womb until nature decided it was time for birth, not human beings.

If it is suggested individuals should NOT consider abortions once they are pregnant based on their inablity to afford the children born, then how does that change when they carry through with their pregnancy, are unable to afford the child and the state is asked to step in, yet some people feel it should not be the state's responsibility?

If one assumes parents should not only be forced to have children once a mother becomes pregnant regardless of whether the parents can afford the child that is born, how does the state then opt out based on the cost of raising the child the parents could not afford, yet it is considered immoral for the parents to opt out?

I agree somewhat with what zzigzzag has laid out and with additional thought, I'm curious to know how one is able to afford something like in-vitro fertilization and the storage of the father's sperm, but then be dependent upon SS and/or welfare. On the other hand, if the mother had been impregnated via in-vitro fertilization and implantation, then the father died, would the state still be on the hook for SS and/or any part of raising the child? One might argue that the intent (including the father's) was already there, the mechanics also, so the only real difference is that the procedure had not taken place before the death of the father.

Had the procedure taken place, the mother gotten pregnant, then the father died, the child(ren) not yet having been born would also not necessarily be the father's responsibility on one level, yet are on another level and probably not been recipients of the SS since, despite the idea of considering or calling the unborn individuals with rights, they are not individuals until they are born, given a certificate of birth with a name, given by the parents, a parent or in the case of some accident where a single mother dies in childbirth, named temporarily by the state. I also don't know of a lot of people who change their wills until the unborn become the born.

I will say that all those that complain about the cost of birth control and abortion for the less than fortunate don't seem to have many or any problems with the cost for medically unnecessary C-Sections picked up on the taxpayers or insurance company tabs at substantially more cost than birth control, abortion and even natural birth, but they'll whine about the cost of caring for the same, AFTER they are born because the parent(s) cannot afford to.
 
lets see,,,is there any economical reason to not have children? not if you dont have to economically support them......is there any economical reason to not work to support your family? not if somebody else supports them....is there any economical reason to not have a new car, home, wardrobe, jewelry, big screen tv, $500.00 tennis shoes, unlimited credit cards? not if you dont have to pay for them.....nope,,,no reason at all......its all very progressive...i like it...sign me up...

Is there some reason to support people who make $20 million annually who have 3,4 or 5 homes? The reason I suggested the econonical reason is that Barbella and some others are constantly suggesting that economical reasons are NO excuse for anyone that would want to terminate a pregnacy on their terms and their opinion of what some others are claiming to be a time before birth when a fetus acquires the legal rights of a child even though it is as yet unborn and without artificial aid and assistance is less likely to survive outside the womb than it would be to remain in the womb until nature decided it was time for birth, not human beings.

If it is suggested individuals should NOT consider abortions once they are pregnant based on their inablity to afford the children born, then how does that change when they carry through with their pregnancy, are unable to afford the child and the state is asked to step in, yet some people feel it should not be the state's responsibility?

If one assumes parents should not only be forced to have children once a mother becomes pregnant regardless of whether the parents can afford the child that is born, how does the state then opt out based on the cost of raising the child the parents could not afford?

I agree somewhat with what zzigzzag has laid out and with additional thought, I'm curious to know how one is able to afford something like in-vitro fertilization and the storage of the father's sperm, but then be dependent upon SS and/or welfare. On the other hand, if the mother had been impregnated via in-vitro fertilization and implantation, then the father died, would the state still be on the hook for SS and/or any part of raising the child? One might argue that the intent (including the father's) was already there, the mechanics also, so the only real difference is that the procedure had not taken place before the death of the father.

Had the procedure taken place, the mother gotten pregnant, then the father died, the child(ren) not yet having been born would also not be the father's responsibility and probably not been recipients of the SS since, despite the idea of considering or calling the unborn individuals with rights, they are not individuals until they are born, given a certificate of birth with a name, given by the parents, a parent or in the case of some accident where a single mother dies in childbirth, named temporarily by the state. I also don't know of a lot of people who change their wills until the unborn become the born.

I will say that all those that complain about the cost of birth control and abortion for the less than fortunate don't seem to have many or any problems with the cost for medically unnecessary C-Sections picked up on the taxpayers tab at substantially more cost than birth control, abortion and even natural birth, but they'll whine about the cost of caring for the same, AFTER they are born because the parent(s) cannot afford to.[/QUOTE]

knotty,,,the question you posed was "is there any ECONOMICAL reason NOT to have children? and my answer was "not if you dont have to ECONOMICALLY support them".. see,,it takes ECONOMIC VIABILITY to support a child...you know,,,MONEY...if you cannot AFFORD to pay the cost of supporting a child, then you have made an ECONOMICAL mistake to CHOOSE to economically support one WHEN YOU KNOW YOU CANNOT DO IT. why are you so confused? do you sign a 18 year contract for $2k per month when you take home $800? simple economics...all the rest of your post has absolutely nothing to do with the ECONOMICAL COST of raising a child...hope your not in the banking bus....and no, i dont want hear about the "humanity" or "gee, i just want a baby and screw who pays for it" the question you posed was simple math. YES, THERE IS A ECONOMICAL REASON NOT TO HAVE A BABY...they cost a lot of money. surprised you dont know that.
 
Can't say I disagree in this specific case, Barb. If she had the kids because she counted on posthumous SS to raise them, that wasn't right. Kind of a weird case, and I sympathize with her wanting to have his children, but that doesn't translate into the SS system being responsible to raise children born after the SS recipient's death. They were neither his choice nor his responsibility, let alone his legal beneficiaries.

I think his legitimate beneficiaries would agree if he didn't have a will. Especially if he had a fortune. You can't go creating new beneficiaries to someone's will after death. Same principle for government benefits. Your estate (even if it's nothing but spousal SS) can't accrue new dependents after you're dead.

I would agree with just about all you have said, but for the thought that it were not his choice to have any children using his sperm, unless one knew specifically that he wanted no further children from that sperm, regardless of whether he was dead or alive. He may have wanted the widow to do what she is alleged to have decided, in which case the children would be his choice and perhaps in his heart, if not his will, his responsibility.

One might argue that if the State of Florida can declare a legal pregnancy at ovulation then if there were an embryo that had been cryopreserved, possibly, but less so, eggs, that an in-vitro "pregnancy" was already underway by virtue of the eggs or embryos that were already forming that had been cryopreserved (not having that information). If they were frozen (depending upon how the twins formed) embryos, then one could argue that by state law, the “pregnancy” began before the husband died.

In some ways this becomes a complication of technicalities and more information needed and perhaps some of the confusion wrought by efforts to force recognition of the unnamed and unborn as the same as the born and named for the purpose of "protecting them". Yet in this case, being faced with the possibility that a process already underway (ovulation), even fertilization and more, sans the sperm donor being alive, that same effort to protect them has created a conundrum of sorts where "innocents" born of the same source of sperm and eggs as their earlier siblings are not equally "protected" as their earlier siblings. Thus it seems, perhaps advancements in science, of in-vitro fertilization, cryopreservation and any "science" that says an "individual life" (with rights) begins at ovulation have created a bit of a dilemma for themselves. It is interesting how science and one's own willingness to donate sperm can "create" additional dependents that would have the same genetic parents as the earlier siblings, yet they cannot be accrued to the estate of the deceased half of their creation. The dilemma being that there is a means to continue to have one's offspring even after one's death, but there is not a means to have them supported, just the same as earlier ones would be.

To me it is a conundrum and a dilemma, in part brought on by a mix of advancements in science, but not in requirements of the law that might make all who engage in sperm donation and/or in-vitro fertilization and cryopreservation to make their intentions clear in the event of the death of one or the other or both of the parents and have all other laws aligned with regard to the legal start of separate individuals with legal rights.

Certainly while alive, some people may not be totally equitable in their plans for their offspring when it comes to their wills and on one hand it does not seem reasonable to try to assume what someone who has passed away might desire or choose regarding each of their offspring, but at the same time, if the state has determined that for legal purposes an individual life begins at ovulation, then all that would need to be established is when the eggs that were fertilized were produced or if the additional children came from an egg or eggs that were not produced until after the father died.

The dilemma is that the father is unable to present his intent and wishes without having done so prior to his death. It would seem to me that because of this dilemma, if further "protection" or support is to be given to additional children from past sperm donation, all is made clear for all related laws to be applied according to succinct wishes and understanding of those wishes.
 
knotty,,,the question you posed was "is there any ECONOMICAL reason NOT to have children? and my answer was "not if you dont have to ECONOMICALLY support them".. see,,it takes ECONOMIC VIABILITY to support a child...you know,,,MONEY...if you cannot AFFORD to pay the cost of supporting a child, then you have made an ECONOMICAL mistake to CHOOSE to economically support one WHEN YOU KNOW YOU CANNOT DO IT. why are you so confused? do you sign a 18 year contract for $2k per month when you take home $800? simple economics...all the rest of your post has absolutely nothing to do with the ECONOMICAL COST of raising a child...hope your not in the banking bus....and no, i dont want hear about the "humanity" or "gee, i just want a baby and screw who pays for it" the question you posed was simple math. YES, THERE IS A ECONOMICAL REASON NOT TO HAVE A BABY...they cost a lot of money. surprised you dont know that.

Thank you oicu812, you have supported the argument for those that wish to terminate a pregnancy based on their inability to AFFORD having a child. If people who have an income of $20 million a year whine about a small portion of it going to support the born, then shouldn't those who make a minute fraction of that be able to decide whether to terminate or continue their pregnancy? Since the woman is the one that actually bears all the physical responsibilty of the pregnancy beyond being impregnated, should she be able to whine (or simply weigh) at least as much as you just have about the COST of that pregnancy on her physical health as much as her pocketbook to raise a child when she is forced to share that burden with only one other and possibly on her own OR face, if not a legal prosecution for being considered a murderer, the condemnation for being the same by those who have put so much time, energy and dollars into declaring the unborn and unnamed to be the same as the born and the named?

What is it you think I didn't know?
 
Oh this is rich.

The proaborts sympathizing with the mother who needs assistance to raise her children. Apparently this woman didn't hear all the doom and gloom talk about the life of misery each of her kids would face if she bore them in the face of need. You'll champion this woman's cause, but the woman who becomes pregnant without planning it is another case, isn't she?
Social security for one......abortion for the other. What it boils down to is that since this woman had to take specific actions to bear these children that indicate a plan to have them before she was pregnant, she's deomonstrated satisfactoriliy TO YOU that she wanted these kids. The woman who has an unplanned pregnancy has some sort of psychic connection to you, wherein you just know she's being held hostage by her unborn child and the people who think he should live


Again, that liberal ideology about reproductive rights caves in on itself.
 
as usual , you miss the point. its not pro abort, its choice! one chose abortion, then other chose kids. both got to choose. tough for meddlesome folks like you to grasp!
 
Thank you oicu812, you have supported the argument for those that wish to terminate a pregnancy based on their inability to AFFORD having a child. If people who have an income of $20 million a year whine about a small portion of it going to support the born, then shouldn't those who make a minute fraction of that be able to decide whether to terminate or continue their pregnancy? Since the woman is the one that actually bears all the physical responsibilty of the pregancy beyond being impregnated, should she be able to whine (or simply weigh) at least as much as you just have about the COST of that pregnancy on her physical health as much as her pocketbook to raise a child when she is forced to share that burden with only one other and possibly on her own OR face, if not a legal prosecution for being considered a murderer, the condemnation for being the same by those who have put so much time, energy and dollars into declaring the unborn and unnamed to be the same as the born and the named?

What is it you think I didn't know?

i have ALWAYS supported abortion....but YOUR question has nothing to do with it...YOUR question was one of simple math or economics 101...THATS what you are confused about...YOUR very own question...do you walk into 7-11 and place a gallon box of thunderbird wine on the counter that costs 2.99 with only .18 cents to your name? why not? it shouldnt {according to you} make any difference if you cant pay for it,,,you want it, so someone else should buy it for you...remember your question was if there was ANY economical reason to NOT take on the financial responsibility of hundreds of thousands of dollars..it matters NOT if you can afford it or NOT. it is a ECONOMICAL reason. i dont know how i can make it any clearer...it costs money to have, raise a child..if you feel you cannot AFFORD that expense, then its an ECONOMICAL reason to NOT have one...feelings, humanity, abortion, have nothing to do with the fact that ECONOMICS are a HUGH consideration in having a child.
 
Oh this is rich.

The proaborts sympathizing with the mother who needs assistance to raise her children. Apparently this woman didn't hear all the doom and gloom talk about the life of misery each of her kids would face if she bore them in the face of need. You'll champion this woman's cause, but the woman who becomes pregnant without planning it is another case, isn't she?
Social security for one......abortion for the other. What it boils down to is that since this woman had to take specific actions to bear these children that indicate a plan to have them before she was pregnant, she's deomonstrated satisfactoriliy TO YOU that she wanted these kids. The woman who has an unplanned pregnancy has some sort of psychic connection to you, wherein you just know she's being held hostage by her unborn child and the people who think he should live


Again, that liberal ideology about reproductive rights caves in on itself.

HUH?

The apparent ideology of many who claim to be "pro-life" seems to be that people who do NOT plan or otherwise want a pregancy, even it is the result of failed birth control, SHOULD be forced to have a resulting child, yet the state should NOT be forced to help support the resulting child because it is TOO expensive for them to do so, yet for some reason it is NEVER too expensive for parents to do so or at least to the point they can do like the state and refuse to support children they deem to be too expensive to support, the difference being some suggesting the state reserve the right not have to support even children that are desired.

For some reason your statement seems to suggest that only UNWANTED pregnancies be forced to be supported financially, but by the parents only, not the state, because even though those that want the parents to carry the pregnancy to term to "protect" the unborn and unnamed, they want to opt out when the hat is passed their way to pitch in for the support that the parents cannot come up with.

This case is different in that as far as I can tell, the only public involvement is SS and at that, it is in part the SS that the deceased husband paid into the system, that were he alive when the pregnancy occurred would have made the children eligible to receive dependent death benefits if he died shortly thereafter.

Perhaps this demonstrates to misunderstanding or mischaracterization of both sides. People who are pro-choice are not anti-children. At the same time, based on your statements, it would appear there are times you do not support supporting children under certain circumstances, especially if it affects your pocket book. This is again the argument used by those who wish to terminate pregnancies based on the cost of having and raising a child.

Those you seem to have disdain for seem to hold the idea that for those that wish to have children, whether they can afford them or not, there should be support all around, both private, state and any other type. The same people also think that those that would carry a pregnancy to term should have the same option as the taxpayers to opt out of having to support a child they don't feel they can support, much less do not want to support as some taxpayer "pro-lifers" seem to indicate, even as they seem to suggest every pregnancy must be carried through to term at the same time.

You and some others based on your statements seem to think only parents should provide the support for their children regardless of whether they desire to have children or not or can afford to or not. I'm not sure you recognize the difference, although you may recognize how this does not match up with the desire of some to portray pro-choice people as pro-abortion or anti-children.

In your very first sentence, you call pro-choice people "proabort" people, even as you go on to complain about their apparent support for this widow who chose to have children by her husband, past his death as it was made possible by modern science. If pro-choice people were truly "proabort" why on earth would they be expressing some empathy for this woman's twins having the same access her other children have to support from the same father? In addition, the fact that it as a dilemma and conundrum was discussed suggesting the decision was not an easy one and that no answer seems to be the best one or that as a result, couples should not be able to engage in artificial means of becoming or aiding pregnancy without clear wished being articulated and expressed about support and beneficiaries and use of store sperm, eggs or embryos beyond the death of one or both.

In part, it would seem the state bears some portion of the responsibility by allowing such conundrums to arise while writing laws which state that life begins at ovulation, yet neglecting to consider and bring other laws into the equation of artificial fertility aid and things like frozen sperm, embryos and to a lesser degree frozen eggs (based on less success of their use over the use of cryopreserved sperm or embryos). One may argue that the state should have considered the use of a couple's banked eggs, sperm or embryos after the death of a one of the donors and in that consideration required an alignment of SS law and wills, trusts and estate law to minimize like conundrums, especially in light of creating a law that grants "personhood" to the unborn, unnamed and unviable (as a separate person) at the point the defintion starts. If there is no more definition than "ovulation" there is no distinguishing between an egg that is not fertilized and one that is not even though both may have ovulated.

Thus without that distinction, based on the defintion of the beginning of a pregnancy being at the time of ovulation, all women still menstuating are "pregnant", I suppose until their body disposes of and discharges the unused un fertilized eggs, but then one might argue that if ovulation equated with pregnancy and pregnancy equates with personhood, then the natural process of disposing and discharging of unfertilized eggs could technically be deemed abortion.

This may be the result of creating some laws based on irrational emotion sans rational, practical and thoughtful wider reaching and longer term considerations of their effect on other things and whether those effects might be positive, neutral or negative to any intended effect of doing no harm.
 
HUH?

The apparent ideology of many on the "right" seems to be that people who do NOT plan or otherwise want a pregancy, even it is the result of failed birth control, SHOULD be forced to have a resulting child, yet the state should NOT be forced to help support the resulting child because it is TOO expensive for them to do so, yet for some reason it is NEVER too expensive for parents to do so or at least to the point they can do like the state and refuse to support children they deem to be too expensive to support, the difference being some suggesting the state reserve the right not have to support even children that are desired.

For some reason your statement seems to suggest that only UNWANTED pregnancies be forced to be supported financially, but by the parents only, not the state, because even though those that want the parents to carry the pregnancy to term to "protect" the unborn and unnamed, they want to opt out when the hat is passed their way to pitch in for the support that the parents cannot come up with.

This case is different in that as far as I can tell, the only public involvement is SS and at that, it is in part the SS that the deceased husband paid into the system, that were he alive when the pregnancy occurred would have made the children eligible to receive dependent death benefits if he died shortly thereafter.

HUH? what in the HELL does any of that have to do with your question? i will answer it for the last time..YES,,there are ECONOMICAL reasons one may choose to NOT have a child....now show me where my answer is incorrect because you think there are NO economical reasons one would CHOOSE to NOT bear children they CANNOT raise ECONOMICALLY....read your own question, and see if there is AN ECONOMICAL reason one may choose to NOT have children...if you cant understand your own question, god help you...you need it...
 
I know you don't get it, there's many woman who are artificially inseminated Barbella, and if this man worked all his life for SS benefits, his widow should be the receipent of those benefits after death, if this man froze sperm in order to produce children, why should the SC disallow what others would benefit from given their familial status?

You don't get it, because you are assuming a frivolous action, I disagree.

Take the emotion out of the argument and look at the situation.

But, you will allow that prolifers who involve themselves into the privacy of regular citizens are enabling that "large government" ideal that supposed conservatives ahbor.

too many conflicting ideals for any reasonable person to be a conservative in my view.

Regards
Pace
 
You will "let" Arizona declare pregnancy starting at the BEGINNING of ovulation, and "let" these backwards states declare "Personhood"

But let a widow bear children thru artificial insemination, and her husband's SS bennies don't apply? what kind of scam is this anyway? it's okay to act lofty and god-like when there's "no money involved"?

I see, so most conservatives are really "pro choice" when it comes to their skinny little pocketbooks and wallets

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Most conservatives? Didn't the Justices unanimously rule based on federal law? Out of curiosity; how did Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan rule?
 
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