News Feb 24, 2009 at 8:43 am

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I agree that octo-mom is nuts. But not wanting to have an abortion or reduction isn't the same as being anti-choice. Pro-choice doesn't mean you think everyone should have an abortion. Or, I mean... does it?
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Nice to have Erica back doing the news with recipes.
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Erica C. Barnett is the finest journalist of her generation, as fine a journalist as Thomas Jefferson was a president. Nevertheless...

THOMAS JEFFERSON WILL NOT BE PRESIDENT AT ALL THIS MONTH!

And no, I don't feel like letting it go.
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Unless you are willing to slaughter your own kids don't dare call yourself pro-choice. It's a blood pact. It's like the Crips and you have to kill a baby to get in.
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i think that's funny that you think anti-choice means choosing to keep your babies, erica. it might help you to take a deep breath and step back from your assumptions occasionally. you might see that they don't always make sense.
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@5 Do they ever make sense? I mean, really.
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"States Refusing Stimulus Money: Hope prayers will work."

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
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Everyone knows life begins when egg cells are surgically extracted from a woman's body, mixed in a test tube chemical bath with random donated sperm cells, and then frozen in a biohazard industrial freezer. It's right there in the bible.
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Whatev. I am pro-choice but wouldn't have an abortion.
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Obama has been in a month and the economy has steepened it's decline.
The 'Magic Negro' seems to be defective.
Can we get a refund?
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The term "Octo-Mom" really grosses me out.
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@8 I don't know about the Bible but that is when my children's lives began. I have pictures of them as 4 and 8 cell clusters. Now they are beautiful teenage girls.
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@1, 4, 5: Her choice to have those embryos implanted all at once put all 8 of them at risk. Actually, make that 9, since the mother's life was also at risk.

And then there's the small matter of her OTHER SIX CHILDREN who still need a mother. I'm not saying she should be forced have a selective termination; but not doing so amounts to neglect and reckless child endangerment. There is no reason those embryos had to go to waste--I'm sure somebody else (somebody who could actually be a decent parent, even) could have made use of them, had this crazy bitch had anyone's best interests in mind.

If the fertility doctor had followed the established guidelines, however, this wouldn't even be an issue. He deserves jail for life.
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Yeah, I've got to agree with Marv. I mean, she is psycho and I don't think she made a good decision, but in the end she made her own choice for her own body. I don't see anything "anti-choice" about that. You can't call yourself pro-choice if you're only willing to respect the choices you personally agree with.
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to I voted for Hillary. Are you serious? This black hole opened up by the Bush administration wasn't going to be fixed in a month. We'll be lucky if damage control can be done in 8 years. Give me a fucking break!!! it took us years to get into this mess it's going to take us years to get out - and things are going to get MUCH WORSE before they get better - and that would be true no matter who was president. it's people like you that make me want to bash people's faces in out of frustration anger and hatred. go back into the hole you crawled out of!
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to 14: Yeah, she's a loon. No, she can't take care of 14 kids. Yeah, the doctor who performed the procedure is a criminal.

But that doesn't make the crazy lady anti-choice. It makes her someone who didn't have an abortion. There's a difference.
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Pro-choice, anti-choice, pro-life, anti-life... remember, those are all stupid platitudes people.

In reality, it's either pro-abortion or anti-abortion. Octo-mom is clearly anti-abortion.

Pro-choice/anti-choice is meaningless.
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Uh oh, I just saw octo-mom had 6 frozen embryos inserted 5 times for each of her 6 previous children, but only 6 of them implanted and developed until birth. That means she killed a total of 24 embryo-babies-humans!! MURDER?!

Oh, and then there's the over 50% of naturally conceived embryos that are naturally aborted spontaneously - chances are that every woman who has ever had a child has had at least one spontaneously aborted embryo that failed to implant into the uterus properly. Jesus is killing billions of embryo-baby-humans, we have to stop him!!
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@18: the attrition-rate math of the 1st SIX pregnancies what immediately came to mind also. her narcissism no doubt allowed her to rationalize those "deaths" as "god's will".

take away the fertility doctor's license. today.
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Hey snargent pepper at 11-

it could be worse, and in fact it is - over at TMZ they call her OCTOPUSSY.
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octo mom might not be anti-choice but ereca barnet is for sure anti-family
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I for one, thought the Lost recap was some of the funniest shit I've read in a long while. Thanks!
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I'm thinking the idiot doctor that did this should have to pay big time for the children's health and well being. This would have the benefit of making others a lot more cautious about what they do. I also do not believe she is a capable parent mentally.
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Shouldn't she really be "quadradecamom?"
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Yes, I'm serious.

What has Obama done to indicate that he has a clue how to end the meltdown?

Obama groupies howled CHANGE! like it was a Hare Krishna mantra, never pausing to think that, as bad as things were THEY COULD ALWAYS GET WORSE.
Change is only good if you change to something better.
In a month Obama has shit away $800 borrowed billions down the crapper that won't help the economy one bit and the markets are in free fall.
The meltdown won't be fixed in a month but in a month Obama could have given the nation a hint that he has a clue.

Bash your own face if you want to work off some steam. If you voted for Obama you deserve it.
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I hope the dead beauty queen won the contest. Then it would be totally worth it.
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Um, guys, last time I checked this morning, the market was UP between 1.5 and 2 percent ... it was the Euro markets that dived.

Keep up.
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oh, and that Ack Attack stuff is bangin.
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Maybe if we illegalized day trading or made people hang on to stocks for at least 24 hours before reselling, the market would not be so volatile.
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HALLELULJA !!!

Obama has saved the economy!
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@17, no, there's a big difference between anti-choice and anti-abortion. Anti-choice people believe abortion should be illegal; anti-abortion people can be either for or against abortion rights. Many pro-choice people are anti-abortion.

I agree with those above who said that it's wrong to call her anti-choice. Based on that article, we don't really know if she is.
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30, won't you feel like a douche if he does? there's still almost 4 years to determine what a failure he is. sit back and relax in your certain knowledge that he will blow it so much worse than mccain would have.
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#25, 30, etc, is slogs latest idiot troll who does have the balls to stay with a single screen name. Don't feed the troll.
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@31
Either one is in favor of legal abortion (pro-abortion) or one is not in favor of legal abortion (anti-abortion).
The words pro-choice and anti-choice are silly (as are pro-life and anti-life). They were only invented to make each side feel great about themselves while vilifying the other side.
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The octomom stated earlier that her doctor wanted her to "kill" her babies, i.e. selectively reduce them. Anyone who phrases a doctor's desire to preserve the health and lives of the mother and children that way is most certainly antichoice.
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Well I'm blushing :D
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35: Or is she someone for whom the idea of abortion is unthinkable? You can find abortion unthinkable and also be pro-choice. Seriously, is it that hard to understand? Abortion is something I would never do (well, I imagine), but I don't think the government should prevent people from making that choice.

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