Americans: still leading the world in uneducated crazy people with lots of free time on their hands.
The bell rang and the eighth graders jumped up, eager to compare notes.
"I named my baby Kyle Patrick," one shouted.
"Mine is Antonio!"
At the urging of an antiabortion activist, they had each pledged to "spiritually adopt" a fetus developing in an unknown woman -- to name it, love it from afar and above all, pray daily that the mother-to-be would not choose abortion.
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Date: 2008-01-23 05:08 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-23 05:17 am (UTC)On behalf of America I apologize for the dumbassery of, apparently, a growing number of our citizens. I can only think that somewhere there is a lab where a lot of mass lobotomy is going on...
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Date: 2008-01-23 05:29 am (UTC)"Abortion is personal for us" my ass.
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Date: 2008-01-23 05:41 am (UTC)Leaving everything else aside (because I am *going to sleep*, right now, dammit), can I just note how really fucking creepy the intrusive overtones of that are?
(Bloody hell, it's not like you *already* don't get pregnant women complaining about people touching their bellies--oh, right, I forgot, incubator status makes you public property. *snarl*)
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Date: 2008-01-23 06:24 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-23 06:27 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-23 06:37 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-23 09:18 pm (UTC)one word:
Date: 2008-01-23 06:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-23 06:50 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-23 10:14 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-23 05:04 pm (UTC)Paging Dr. Skinner. Dr. Skinner to the Young and Impressionable Phone, please.