Octuplets!?! A mini rant

In case you didn't hear, last week a woman in California gave birth to octuplets. Come to find out today, she already had SIX KIDS. SIX!!! And she felt the need to have one more!? I just do not understand that. And I am sure I will get some sort of had time for this - "you just don't understand" - "when you have kids you will understand" - "your not a parents, you just do not get it." Bite me. I might not be a parent, but I am a person who now has to share the already over crowded planet with these people, and an American tax payer. I do not feel that I should have to support someones choice to have 8 (or 7 whatever) babies because they are prolife and already have 6 kids. That is just BS!! Do not have kids if you can't support them!! We do not have the money to support a kid, so we CHOOSE to not have a baby. Its is not that hard of a choice to make. Birth control is free. You just have to put the effort into getting it. It is not that hard. Or heaven forbid you just not have sex! And now the dad of these 14 kids is off to Iraq. I am sure he would have been going regardless, but I think he is probably the most lucky one. He has 14 kids at home, say "bye I got to run" and off to Iraq he goes, missing all the messy stage of his new 8 buddles of joy's first months of life. WTF!?

My friend JJ pointed out a great blog post to me today that I encourage those who might be equally agitated by all of this to read. I think we live in a time where we are celebrating those who make the choice to have many many children. Just look at the shows on TLC like "Jon and Kate plus 8" and "17 Kids and Counting" (now changed to 18 because they have bred again). You all ways see (about every 9 months) these 18 kids folks on tv - "look, we did it again" - give me a break! They are from Arkansas near where I went to undergrad. If you can afford them, guess it a free world, but still! The planet is already over populated!

I have friends who have not been able to have kids and I feel bad for them. They would be great parents! And they have to see stories like this on the news about a family who already has 6 kids having 8 more - at once. It is ridiculous. It seems like the ones who can't have kids have to have a large amount of cash, and they they can get their baby. But the ones who don't, well, too bad, and they are often the ones who would be the best parents and have good kids. And then there is the other side of the coin, those that have kids and shouldn't. Either they can't feed them, or take care of them, or they just do not care about them what so ever. Yet these are the people who have 5 or 6 kids already. And my tax dollars get to pay for it instead of them just getting free birth control or not having sex. It really makes me mad! And makes me think of this classic movie clip that pretty much sums it up:

Birth control is NOT abortion

Today I signed a petition to keep the Bush administration from designating birth control as a type of abortion (what - no we can't even have birth control!?!). Feel free to read the form letter below from the petition site and sign the petition if you agree with what they have to say. ~ ReBecca

Can you imagine living in a place where birth control is considered an "abortion" and health insurers won't cover it? Where even rape victims are denied emergency contraception?

It seems unbelievable, but the Bush Administration is quietly trying to redefine "abortion" to include birth control. The Houston Chronicle says this could wipe out dozens of state laws that protect women's reproductive freedom and protect rape victims. And this proposed "rule change" doesn't need congressional approval.

I just signed a message to Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt, whose department is considering this rule change, telling him: "Contraception is NOT abortion." Can you add your voice to this cause? Click here to sign the message: http://pol.moveon.org/contraception/?r_by=-10454073-UV8hDLx&rc=paste