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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: BookmanTheJanitor

Joanna is Filipina


21 posted on 01/15/2018 10:59:47 PM PST by Trump.Deplorable
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To: Architect of Avalon
I am the oldest of ten children. I take personal offense at this woman's horrible and unfounded opinion.

Most big families are good taxpaying citizens and are not prison-bound.

I am the only one in my family who ever went to jail. And that was because I blocked an abortion clinic with 35 other people.

That part in the Declaration of Independence that talks about life means mostly the life of the family, the smallest unit that deserves protection from government intrusion, which also has its right to exist just because.

It is none of anybody's business what Joanna and Chip do with their family.

This lady needs to shut her mouth.

22 posted on 01/15/2018 11:01:31 PM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: Architect of Avalon
Obviously the US and Canada are the problem:


23 posted on 01/15/2018 11:01:41 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Architect of Avalon

They buy dumps, fix them up and sell them for $300K profit, I am sure they can afford 5 kids

Its the moms who have 5 kids, from 5 different daddies, who are on welfare.

Those are the problems

I think liberals hate the fact that the Gaines are rich and can afford 5 kids


24 posted on 01/15/2018 11:02:33 PM PST by Trump.Deplorable
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To: Trump.Deplorable

Actually her father is American and her mother is Korean.


25 posted on 01/15/2018 11:03:42 PM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: Reno89519
Procreation of ignorant people is the problem.

I guess another way to put it would be to say "People having babies in sh*tholes is the problem."

26 posted on 01/15/2018 11:04:35 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Architect of Avalon

I’m a fan of of Chip and Joanna and their show and am so very happy to hear they are expecting.

In one of their earlier shows, Joanna came to Chip and said ,” Guess who’s pregnant?” His funny “please tell me it’s not you” made me sad so this is very exciting. From what I’ve seen and read they love Jesus, each other and their kids. They seem to be great parents raising great kids-the world needs more like them.

Good for them and may God continue to bless them.


27 posted on 01/15/2018 11:08:28 PM PST by NorthstarMom
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To: Architect of Avalon

A responsible working family is wrong to have another child? What about the indigent brood sow with five EBT kids by three different sires? Not a word about her, because that would be (all together now) RRRAA...oh, never mind!


28 posted on 01/15/2018 11:10:27 PM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Architect of Avalon
“as a feminist, I tend to oppose any cultural conversation that involves telling a woman what to do with her body.”
Well, unless I'm the one doing it.
29 posted on 01/15/2018 11:11:55 PM PST by Bob (Damn, the democrats haven't been this upset since Republicans freed their slaves.)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
There goes a woman’s right to choose.

The Feminazis have ALWAYS been for the right to choose...as long as the choice is to abort!

30 posted on 01/15/2018 11:12:07 PM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Architect of Avalon

Scrooge McPyszczyk should cut her own throat and reduce the surplus population.


31 posted on 01/15/2018 11:13:21 PM PST by Theophilus (Repent)
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To: Architect of Avalon
I think population control is important...in India, Africa and other nations that can not take care of their populace...

when you have two good parents, I'd like them to have a dozen children...

32 posted on 01/15/2018 11:14:19 PM PST by cherry
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To: Architect of Avalon

We are going to have to kill people who think like this one day
Sad but true

A war for the soul of humanity


33 posted on 01/15/2018 11:14:32 PM PST by wardaddy (As a southerner I've never trusted the Grand Old Party.....any questions?)
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To: roadcat
She needs to shame people in sh*thole countries, where having 8 to 10 kids is the norm.

That's to be sure that 2 or 3 will survive to adulthood.

34 posted on 01/15/2018 11:15:42 PM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Architect of Avalon

Try colonizing the nearest star system! 23+- trillion mikes away without “billions and billions” of taxpayers.


35 posted on 01/15/2018 11:22:46 PM PST by Theophilus (Repent)
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To: Trump.Deplorable

They also own a B&B, a bakery and an online store. They have over 20 jobs positions waiting to be filled, as well as raising what seems to be a nice family with good work ethics. They aren’t just being responsible for their own family, they’re helping other families make a living and contribute to their community.


36 posted on 01/15/2018 11:23:00 PM PST by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: Gene Eric

My handle... Was tired of waiting for PC garbage to go away. Took a long time to get Donald J. Trump across the finish line. Now I do believe what Franklin Graham said.... It was by the Grace of God that Donald J. Trump won the 2016 election.

Amen to that!


37 posted on 01/15/2018 11:25:44 PM PST by WaterWeWaitinFor ("We will be one people under one God, saluting one American flag". DJT 9/12/16)
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To: Architect of Avalon

They are OK. God’s instructions were to be fruitful and multiply.


38 posted on 01/15/2018 11:28:03 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Herakles

We don’t need to worry about over population now.


39 posted on 01/15/2018 11:29:57 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Herakles

G. K. Chesterton

"Surplus population"

"SCROOGE is not only as modern as Gradgrind but more modern than Gradgrind. He belongs not only to the hard times of the middle of the nineteenth century, but to the harder times of the beginning of the twentieth century; the yet harder times in which we live. Many amiable sociologists will say, as he said, "Let them die and decrease the surplus population." The improved proposal is that they should die before they are born.

"It is notable also that Dickens gives the right reply; and that with a deadly directness worthy of a much older and more subtle controversionalist. The answer to anyone who talks about the surplus population is to ask him whether he is the surplus population; or if he is not, how he knows he is not. That is the answer which the Spirit of Christmas gives to Scrooge."

~G.K. Chesterton: Introduction to A Christmas Carol. (1922)

40 posted on 01/15/2018 11:30:52 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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