[HPFGU-OTChatter] I voted!!! was Re: Obama and daughter HP fans

[Kai Wen Lee]

Kemper now:
What is a few hundred dollars compared to the thousands or hundreds of thousands of tax dollars that could be spent on an unwanted child.

CJ now:
I was going to bow out of this as I'm not sure an abortion debate is good for OT-Chatter. But ye pushed me butt'n, Kemper.

I have two questions:

1. What the hell is an "unwanted child"? 

2. When and how did "unwanted" become code for "unloved"? 

3. Where's the evidence linking unplanned children to higher rates of child abuse or lower quality of life?

4. Not being omniscient beings, what the hell makes us think we're qualified either to predict any child's future or (assuming statistical evidence for #3 exists (it doesn't)) to judge what "quality of life" is sufficient to guarantee a child the right to live? And are we willing to apply those same standards to "wanted" children?

My apologies for my harsh tone but as the adoptive father of a girl who was abandoned at birth on an anonymous doorstep (likely by an unwed teenage mother), there's no quicker wage to engage my ire than to suggest my daughter was somehow prime fodder for an abortion mill.

--CJ (who already regrets not waited 24 hours to cool down before posting this)

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