To the Editor:
Here’s a trend no one predicted: pregnancy. Stand in a grocery checkout line and see the headlines about which celebrity is pregnant; which one has a new baby.
It seems there are so many women out there wanting babies that they haven’t thought about the fact that these babies will be growing up, akin to those who likewise purchase cute puppies; all the time and devotion they’ll need – or even the fact that accomplishing all this would be helped immensely by the child having two parents.
It also seems ironic that women who do not want themselves thought of as baby factories would embrace implantations and fertility drugs to that end.
Makes one wonder also where are the ethics of those who have the technology who take the attitude “we can do it, therefore we’ll do it.”
Hopefully they don’t make that decision when it comes to nuclear weapons and the economy for instance.
You can make the argument that only humans exceed the limits of natural constraints and, in a way, one woman’s multiple upon multiple births has become a reflection of the nation’s over spending, over consumption, over eating and over population. Multiple births at times, but also multiple credit cards, autos, wives, etc.
Just because society has created a genie to grant every wish, many have come to the conclusion he wouldn’t have to be paid but from the affluent to the least able, we all are paying. That includes paying for a woman’s multiple humans by those who are struggling to raise their own two or three children.
Maybe it’s time to consider if those who have come onboard “right to life” have gone overboard. If something can be made possible, it should be rethought.
Carl Scheiman, Walpole
