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To: cake_crumb
It's more than a little intellectually insulting listening to zealots wandering around warning women of all the horrors alcohol usage will cause to their unborn babies, while handing them a business card for an abortion clinic and a free needle so they don't get AIDS while shooting up

No kidding. And the anti-tobacco zealots are just as bad. I actually had one tell me my daughter would have been better off had I been to one of those clinics so she would not have been born, just because I happen to smoke.

The scare tactics of the nannyists is absolutely outrageous, the big problem is they get paid big bucks for their fear-mongering based upon very shaky "scientific research."

23 posted on 10/18/2004 2:02:44 PM PDT by Gabz (Hurricanes and Kerry/Edwards have 2 things in common - hot air and destruction.)
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To: Gabz
"No kidding. And the anti-tobacco zealots are just as bad. I actually had one tell me my daughter would have been better off had I been to one of those clinics so she would not have been born, just because I happen to smoke."

My oldest daughter had preeclampsia which eventually nearly killed her and her son. Some nurse told her that none of this would have happened if she hadn't smoked...ignoring new evidence that when preeclampsia runs in the family of one parent, even the father, the resulting pregnancy is also at higher risk.

My daughter, afraid for her son's life, really did not need this pseudo-scientific guilt laid on her by some moron proselytizing from pop-psych pulpit. Fior one thing, it raised her out of control blood pressure even more and caused more potential harm to the baby.

Since my daughter wasn't in any shape to do it, I let the twit have it with both barrels. I also told her doctor, a neonatal specialist. His position was that it's best to try to quit smoking while pregnant, but he never went beyond that sound and practical advice into Tinfoil Hat Land. He never let that nurse anywhere near my daughter again, either.

26 posted on 10/18/2004 2:25:00 PM PDT by cake_crumb (UN Resolutions=Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
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