EXTRA! EXTRA! Get your Babies here!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,172887,00.html
from JoeUser Forums

Yep, in a case of life imitating art, a seller on China's version of eBay tried to start selling babies.  It was only a matter of time.  In a country where mandatory abortion is the rule, and childless couples have no babies to adopt, someone decided to start harvesting them from what in all likelihood, were female slaves.

The Ad was pulled, but not before at least 50 people saw it acording to reports.  And while the act of selling a baby is illegal in China, the officials are clueles as to whether the mere advertising or offering of the sale of said post partum fetuses is illegal.

I would say that this is a sad commentary on the state of China today, and it is.  But I cannot say that it is unexpected.  When life, and babies, become mere objects to be sloganized and euthanized, this was bound to happen.

I suspect it is already happening, just not in so public a forum as the Internet.

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
Makes their transition to a capitalistic society a little more dark and disturbing, huh?


Incidentally, when you said...
post partum fetuses


...your choice of words was offputting. Were you just looking for another word for "babies"?
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top

...your choice of words was offputting. Were you just looking for another word for "babies"?

Several months back, the ACLU was defending a woman who endangered the life of her child by doing drugs.  They called it a fetus.  It was a sharp tongue in cheek reference to the fact that the abortion proponents are not satisfied with aborting just pre partum babies, but wanted to decriminalize the post partum abuse there of as well.

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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
Missed that one. Thanks for putting it into context for me. Yikes.

How post-partum must those fetuses be when they lose their status?
Holy crap, am *I* still post-partum?
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top

How post-partum must those fetuses be when they lose their status?
Holy crap, am *I* still post-partum?

Makes that South Park Episode kind of prophetic (when Cartman's mom slept with Bill Clinton to try to get him to pass a law onpost partum abortions).

Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
This is so disgusting I have no words to say how I feel except one...disgusted!
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top

This is so disgusting I have no words to say how I feel except one...disgusted!

Sometimes one word speaks volumes.  Yours does.

Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
How post-partum must those fetuses be when they lose their status?
Holy crap, am *I* still post-partum?


According to Barbara Boxer, till your family brings you home from the hospital.

This is an exchange she had with another Senator:

MR. SANTORUM: I would like to ask you this question. You agree, once the child is born, separated from the mother, that that child is protected by the Constitution and cannot be killed. Do you agree with that?

MRS. BOXER: I think when you bring your baby home, when your baby is born...the baby belongs to your family and has rights.

Many Conservatives have used that quote to say Boxer claims abortion is okay as long as the baby ...er "fetus"... hasn't left the hospital. (It certainly looks like what she said.)

After further badgering, Boxer backtracked and drastically cut the time frame. "Is it a human being?" she pondered. "It takes a second; it takes a minute "

Which I find no less appalling than "when you bring your baby home."

Then there's professed Libertarian Bill Maher who likes to refer to babies and children as "womb droppings."

*SIGH*
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top

Then there's professed Libertarian Bill Maher who likes to refer to babies and children as "womb droppings."

I dont listen to Maher (and he is no libertarian), but your quote of him is not surprising. Nor are the ones of "Boxed Her".

Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
(and he is no libertarian)


THANK YOU!
Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top
Hey, they're just human beings. It's not like they're actually worth anything.

Right?
Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top

(and he is no libertarian)


THANK YOU!

I am not either, just a wanna bee.

Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top

Hey, they're just human beings. It's not like they're actually worth anything.

Right?

Unfortunately, that does seem to be the case.