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Feminist slams ‘Fixer Upper’ stars for 5th baby: We need to ‘shame’ them for being ‘irresponsible’
LifeSiteNews ^ | Monday, January 15, 2018 | Claire Chretien

Posted on 01/15/2018 10:14:32 PM PST by Architect of Avalon

CANADA, January 15, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – “Procreation is becoming a global public health concern, rather than a personal decision,” a feminist wrote for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in an article trashing "Fixer Upper" stars Chip and Joanna Gaines for having a fifth child.

“It's not an exaggeration to say that the survival of our species depends” on population control, Kristen Pyszczyk wrote. Even though population control “carries with it associations with eugenics and other nasty historical events...we still need to talk about it.”

The Gaines couple of HGTV fame announced the existence of their fifth child by posting a photo on Instagram. In it, Chip and Joanna compare their bellies.

“Gaines party of 7.. (If you’re still confused.. WE ARE PREGNANT),” Chip wrote.

His wife shared a video of their baby’s heartbeat on Twitter.

Not everyone is happy the Gaines children each have a fourth sibling, though.

Quoting Stephen Hawking and speculating that humans might need to colonize another planet within 100 years to survive, Pyszczyk urged, “let's lighten the load, friends.”

The idea that procreation is fulfilling needs to be challenged, Pyszczyk wrote, and “women need to be presented with options for a fulfilling life that don't involve taking 20 years of their lives to care for offspring.”

It’s “great” that people are beginning to react in a hostile way to large families, she wrote, but “we need to go much farther.”

Citing carbon footprints, Pyszczyk argued those in the “global West” must be given “alternatives” to the natural family.

“This inevitably involves calling out people who have kids like they're going out of style,” Pyszczyk wrote. “Shame is a powerful tool for changing behaviour: it's how we introduce new and existing social conventions. It's unfortunate that Chip and Joanna bore the brunt of changing attitudes, but let's learn from the reaction and examine our own actions.”

“Procreation is becoming a global public health concern, rather than a personal decision,” she insisted. “So when people do irresponsible things like having five children, we absolutely need to be calling them out.”

Pyszczyk admitted that Canada’s birth rates are plummeting, but suggested that Trump restricting funding for international abortion organizations may increase immigration to Canada.

Pyszczyk also claimed that “as a feminist, I tend to oppose any cultural conversation that involves telling a woman what to do with her body.”

Nevertheless, “changing the narrative around motherhood should help to offset some of the cultural conditioning we receive throughout our lives” and “it's not OK to have five kids without once considering adoption.”

“There are so many children in North America and beyond in need of loving homes, yet adoption rates in many areas are lagging,” she complained.

There are 114,556 children waiting to be adopted in the U.S., according to the Adoption Network Law Center. More than half a million babies are aborted annually in the U.S. Some states do not require facilities to report how many abortions they commit, so an exact number is unavailable.

There have been 60 million abortions since Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court case legalizing abortion on demand.

In November 2017, NBC printed an article in which a bioethicist argued having many children is immoral like releasing murderers from prison.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: abortion; babies; families; father; fatherhood; fathers; men; mothder; motherhood; mothers; prolife; women
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To: Yaelle

...”The idea that procreation is fulfilling needs to be challenged, Pyszczyk wrote, and “women need to be presented with options for a fulfilling life that don’t involve taking 20 years of their lives to care for offspring.”...

The left and I have to say, some women who seem not to have normal female hormones, hate the idea of children and most of them love abortion. I have observed that my whole adult life. They seem to want women to be men and men to be women. I know that, one day, something is going to happen which will reset Mother Nature and, from the looks of the insanity affluence has brought to this nation, it is not too far off into the future. Will it be disease, high tech, war, an EMP, or the return of Jesus, as Christians believe, which will end the madness? When you have a situation where the fake “therapists” are now telling little children they are not allowed to have a best friend, you have a clue as to how far gone we are! The Gaines are a bright light and an inspiration to little girls. They are Christians, they love each other and they have wonderful skills. The greatest dream of my young Granddaughter is to meet them. If there is hope, perhaps it will come from the generation a couple back from the day of the rabid feminist, who saw the most innocent life as a threat to her and hers. I rejoice that people like the Gaines are having babies and I sincerely hope that others, like them, will do the same.


61 posted on 01/16/2018 1:43:34 AM PST by jazzlite
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To: Architect of Avalon

I wonder if this “feminist” bitch has similarly excoriated muslims for breeding like rabbits.


62 posted on 01/16/2018 1:45:54 AM PST by ScottinVA ( Liberals, go find another country.)
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To: Architect of Avalon

They can have 20 kids with my blessing.


63 posted on 01/16/2018 1:46:20 AM PST by DoughtyOne (A/O 01/12/18 DJIA business close 25,803.19, a 44.25% increase over the morning of 11/07/16.)
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To: Architect of Avalon

I never had children. Chip and Joanna’s baby can count against my quota.


64 posted on 01/16/2018 1:53:46 AM PST by Not A Snowbird (A year in Arizona... and I haven't burst into flames yet.)
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To: Architect of Avalon

Peddle this crap to the Third World $hitholes where the muzzies have championed breeding their way to majority in their insane quest to subjugate the entire world to their death cult.
That is where eugenics may be among the alternatives to assure they fail in that plan.


65 posted on 01/16/2018 1:54:33 AM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. Mr Trump, we've got your six.)
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To: wardaddy
We are going to have to kill people who think like this one day Sad but true

"America is at that awkward stage; it's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
- Claire Wolfe

66 posted on 01/16/2018 1:57:47 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Architect of Avalon

My wife and I have a lot of children, what many consider to be “irresponsible” or “more than your share” or “too big a carbon footprint”. When someone clueless innocently asks how many more we plan to have, we are polite. When someone like this imposes and tries to tell us how many we are allowed to have, we go into a routine:

- I’ll say that we’re planning at least two more,
- my wife will interrupt with, “no, three more now.”
- I’ll ask when we decided on three more,
- She’ll point out what the nosy woman (it’s almost always a woman) said and explain that every time someone tells her what the Social Justice Warrior said, she gets to have another baby,
- finally both of us act as excited over the future new baby as new parents are over their first child.

It’s a lot of fun!


67 posted on 01/16/2018 2:18:37 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Architect of Avalon

Little known factb if you apply the population density of NYC to all of Texas you can fit the entire population of the world in Texas, maybe a little spillover in ajoining states.


68 posted on 01/16/2018 3:00:34 AM PST by stockpirate (Give Peas a Chance)
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To: Architect of Avalon
Not everyone is happy the Gaines children each have a fourth sibling, though.

As I was walking into church on Sunday, a friend was explaining to someone that each of my two teenaged daughters has nine siblings.

"For a total of 18!" I called over my shoulder.

69 posted on 01/16/2018 3:21:43 AM PST by Tax-chick ("It's the end of the world as we know it ... if the sky is falling, I don't want to be below it.")
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To: Trump.Deplorable

No, she’s half Korean.


70 posted on 01/16/2018 3:45:25 AM PST by TiGuy22
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To: doc maverick

My thoughts exactly. The Gaines family appear to be great parents and have modeled hard work as the way to succeed. We need MORE children from these kind of parents. I hope they have 10 children.


71 posted on 01/16/2018 3:56:11 AM PST by Tuscaloosa Goldfinch ( I would LOVE to have my old "substandard" insurance back. It didn't mean $24K annual out of pocket)
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To: Architect of Avalon

:: Pyszczyk urged, “let’s lighten the load, friends.” ::

OK. You first.


72 posted on 01/16/2018 4:04:45 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Syzygy

One of the greatest scrabble words when played in the right position.


73 posted on 01/16/2018 4:05:56 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Architect of Avalon

So no family growth for a great American family, but out of control breeding in every shithole across the globe. But it is OK, we’ll import them.


74 posted on 01/16/2018 4:06:47 AM PST by School of Rational Thought
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To: Architect of Avalon

A fine show...fine folks...no wonder the RATs and their vile supporters hate the Gaines.


75 posted on 01/16/2018 4:24:17 AM PST by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocke)
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To: Architect of Avalon

Canada is trying to become another Germany or Britain.

Bringing in third world thugs who don’t even know how to use a toilet is good.

Having your own children is bad.


76 posted on 01/16/2018 4:37:32 AM PST by Vlad The Inhaler (The only trannie I want to see is a Muncie 4 speed M-22 Rock Crusher)
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To: Architect of Avalon

Go to muzzy countries and tell them to stop having babies.


77 posted on 01/16/2018 4:40:24 AM PST by I want the USA back (Lying Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: cpdiii

the question was likely asked because you seem to have a chip on your shoulder - accusing people of racism before anyone even responded to you. and the big about speaking spanish - so what? yet more evidence of some issue YOU have. nobody else cares


78 posted on 01/16/2018 4:51:28 AM PST by CottonBall (Thank you, Julian!)
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To: jazminerose

if the author really has an issue with people having kids, why isn’t she attacking illegals, muslims, and other 3rd world countries?


79 posted on 01/16/2018 4:53:54 AM PST by CottonBall (Thank you, Julian!)
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To: Trump.Deplorable

No, she is not.


80 posted on 01/16/2018 5:11:08 AM PST by caver
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