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San Diego Zoo Panda News: Bai Yun Gives Birth
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After several months of waiting to see if the San Diego Zoo’s female giant panda was pregnant, 13-year-old Bai Yun gave birth to a single cub Tuesday evening following a 3-hour labor.
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Two letters that I did not write –
Dear Amy:
My brother, “Gregory,” has just announced his engagement to “Cynthia.” They’re both in their early thirties. This will be Greg’s first marriage and Cynthia’s third. They’ve been dating for less than three months and are getting married a month from now. Our parents are trying to be supportive, but needless to say Cynthia’s track record is less than stellar. This is made more complicated by the fact that our parents are devout Baptists and she is of another Christian faith, and the ceremony planned will be a civil one.
To add to this situation, Greg has stated that the extended family (aunts, uncles, cousins — and there are many of them, several from out of state) should attend or he will no longer speak to them.
I’ve tried explaining that the speed with which this has come about makes it unlikely that many can attend, just on a practical level. Yet he’s taken a “they’re either for us or against us” stance, and he doesn’t seem likely to budge.
Frustrated
The best way to handle this might be to ask Greg a series of questions, and listen to his answers. Why is he marrying so quickly? What does he expect from others? Are his expectations reasonable? Are there other and perhaps more tolerant ways for him to handle his expectations?
After listening to your brother’s answers, tell him that you support him and his decisions, except when his choices threaten to hurt family members.
From another Weingarten Chat First Knight
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Washington, D.C.: “I believe that abortion is wrong because it ends a human life, so once again: your right to pursuit of birth control ends where the fetus’s rights begin.”
Since when does ANY human, born or unborn, have the “right” to sustain their life BY INHABITING AND USING ANOTHER PERSON’S BODY without that person’s continuing permission to do so? Is a pregnant woman not a human being, too? Does YOUR right to control who may or may not use YOUR internal organs end where their right to live begins?
And for those who say, “well, she shouldn’t have sex if she doesn’t want to be an incubator” — maybe you shouldn’t drive if you don’t want to give your body parts to anyone you may injure while driving, even if you make every effort to avoid the accident (after all, abstinence is the only way, right?).
And yet, no matter how careless you are while driving or roller-skating or anything else, you still are never, ever considered to have irrevocably given your body or body parts to someone else by your carelessness.
Besides, a lot can change in nine months. A woman may willingly get pregnant with a wanted child — but due to changed circumstances somewhere in there, may find that her life, health, or sanity is endangered by the pregnancy. Because she consented, under different circumstances, is she not entitled to say no to further use of her body?
Someone who is not allowed to say no to someone else’s use of their body is a slave. We outlawed slavery in America. Why do you think we should bring it back for pregnant women?
Gene Weingarten: Whoa. Well. I am about as strong an advocate of choice as exists on this planet, I think, but this argument seems extreme even to me.
Actually, it is not that it is illogical — it isn’t really, and I essentially buy it — it’s that it is, um, a tad … hostile?
Calm down, now. Take your meds like a good girl. It’s hard to argue that one is not significantly contributorily negligent to the situation resulting in an unwanted fetus. It’s also just a little cold to compare a fetus to a parasite. I do believe it is about one’s right to control one’s own body.
And I consider that right essentially absolute.