Want to find out how people really feel about reproductive rights? Ask them about Nadya Suleman, the Jack Bauer of social responsibility. Back in the day, so I’m told, relying on friends and family was considered a virtue — takes a village and all that. My mom lived in her own mother’s basement with five kids when my dad went halfway across the country to look for a job. In the media glare, which can’t end soon enough, there’s no acceptable way for poor Nadya to get the support she needs to raise her brood — though there are now a number of non-traditional options available.
Part of the reason I have such a soft spot for her lies in the vague and unrealistic nature of her plans. It seems like, like Michael Jackson, she really doesn’t understand what all the fuss is about. And since this situational tragedy is set in the magical fairyland of Cally-fornia and therefore subject to the highest cognitive dissonance tax this side of Florida, I can raise much more wood for her trout-pout than I can her economic situation. Not that that’s anything to be smug about.
BTW, here’s an honest-to-FSM quote from Stephen Wise, the Florida state senator who plans to introduce the bill linked above: “I got a lot of hate mail last year. You’d think I’d never gone to school, that I was Cro-Magnon man, that I just got out of a cave or something.”
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I have a more personal, totally selfish reason for being unhappy with the OctoMom. A few days after she delivered her litter of tiny, tiny babies, there was a press conference by the hospital, a Kaiser Permanente facility, about how proud they were to have provided the 48 doctors, untold number of nurses and 4 delivery rooms needed to make it all happen. One day later, we got told by our health care company (guess who?) Kaiser Permanente, that our portion of our health care costs would be going up by sixty dollars a month. Now I’m not saying that there is a cause and effect relationship between the two things, but……… damn.
Timing-wise, that sucks. You’d think they could recoup their losses by laying people off, like everyone else does.
That other link I dropped especially for you. Well, maybe not, but I knew you’d relish the irony.