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1. #1
   On August 4th, 2004 at 7:59 am, Barry L. May said:

   I’ve seen women have abortions to keep their figure. It all comes down to restoring our public education.

2. #2
   On August 4th, 2004 at 8:05 am, David2 said:

   She doesn’t want to shop at Costco and buy big jars of mayonnaise? Oh well, now I understand. She doesn’t have enough room. Everyone needs their space, man. And who wants to rub elbows with the unwashed masses when you could be home watching the Today Show with Matt and Katie or playing the piano. It’s all part of the liberal lifestyle. Grow up? No thanks. Not her. Not the kids. But I bet the lucky one who survived will grow up to be a conservative.

3. #3
   On August 4th, 2004 at 8:13 am, Dan Kauffman said:

   The whole issue is reaching insane legal extremes.

   There is a suit now in Immigration Court petitioning to allow a deported woman back in the Country on the grounds that her 8 month ( at the time I read about it) embroyo is entitled to rights not as a potential, but as a US citizen?

   Wouldn’t that open a can of worms?
   There are a few things you cannot legally do to a US citizen, killing them is one, and the last time I checked homicide did not have a statute of limitations?

   While I am on the subject IF the embryo is in Fact and Law a “part” of the women’s body, and a person can be charged with fetal homicide, could they also if the woman say, lost a hand in an accident, be charged with “hand” homicide?

   I cannot for the life of me see how fetal homicide and legal abortions can BOTH exist in the same legal system.

   One or the other, but not both.

4. #4
   On August 4th, 2004 at 8:14 am, Geoff said:

   I suppose, in the ‘tradition’ of Kerry, that this is a nuanced comment. Of course, we in the real world call it a lame attempt to justify a decision that cannot be justified in any rational sense. had she originally stated a medical reason for offing two of her kids, then ok, perhaps that would be different. But she didn’t. She just didn’t want to change how she lived her life. I hope the nanny they will certainly hire is a good parent. I doubt she could be.

5. #5
   On August 4th, 2004 at 8:15 am, GsOuPx said:

   What’s the matter with living on Staten Island? In fact, Richmond County [which is all of Staten Island] has the second highest property values in all of NY state.

6. #6
   On August 4th, 2004 at 8:17 am, Blacksheep said:

   Looks to me like Ms. Richards’ original statement said all we really need to know: in just seven sentances, she managed to use some form of the words ‘I’ or ‘my’ THIRTEEN times.

   “But it’s not about me, I tells ya’, it’s about the music lessons … well, and the mayonnaise thing, of course ….”

7. #7
   On August 4th, 2004 at 8:17 am, Dan Kauffman said:

   Also, I personally believe that the long term physological impact on my child would be more negative if he knew that he had “siblings” out there whom he didn’t know.
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   And of course the knowledge that they had two siblings who had been killed will have NO effect on the child at all???

8. #8
   On August 4th, 2004 at 8:20 am, Fang said:

   As a husband to a wife going through the slow, slow process of In-Vitro Fertilization, and reading the updates on the “trials” that the good Ms. Richards is going through, I’m torn between righteous indignation, furious anger, and a deeper, underlying sadness.

   Oh, what a pity — that a woman should be “burdened” by three children at once, as opposed to one. It’s a wonder that she even kept one at all, being an abortion-rights advocate (if I recall correctly). So good to know she’s stepping in line with her beliefs, though.

   Some women who want children have to crawl straight through Hell to get them. And some women would rather go to Hell than keep the ones they could have.

   What a country.

9. #9
   On August 4th, 2004 at 8:39 am, Mike said:

   This whole story of “selective murder” by this Amy Richards person just sickens me to no end. I’ve been trying for years to understand why liberals think the way they do when common sense and basic human values we learned as children would/should be screaming at them “YOU’RE WRONG”. But I guess it just comes down to the fact that Michael Savage is correct. Liberalism is a mental illness that can’t be reasoned with or understood by the non-inflicted.

10. #10
    On August 4th, 2004 at 8:43 am, Pogo said:

    Michelle,

    Justifying abortion by such peurile reasoning is the height of arrogance. I might suggest Ms. Richards pick up a copy of the book “Lincoln’s Virtues: An Ethical Biography” by William Lee Miller. Its explorations of his moral education and his repudiation of slavery has much to offer for those opposed to abortion.

    For example, although we permit abortion, even liberal commentators expect its use to be limited. Ms. Richard’s own backpedalling on her initial reason for aborting two fetuses (convenience) suggests that even promoters of abortion have qualms about it. Lincoln opined that this very fact suggests an acknowledged immorality with such behaviors, no matter how we dress it up in legalese and rationalizations.

11. #11
    On August 4th, 2004 at 8:43 am, GsOuPx said:

    If she had moved to Staten Island, maybe she would have WANTED to have all three. Snug Harbor, great restuarants, traffic is better than in Brooklyn or Queens, highly rated public schools, travel hockey, tree-lined streets and, of course, the Ferry is free!!

    Geez…the snobbery of some people…

12. #12
    On August 4th, 2004 at 8:51 am, jack white said:

    Amy Richards is an argument for forcible abortion. She shouldn’t have one child.

13. #13
    On August 4th, 2004 at 9:12 am, Chris said:

    My wife and I also had fertility problems, and after finally having one her insides were damaged to the point she cannot carry another to term. We lost two before doctors figured that out. We have been pursuing different kinds of adoption for years. So this story is beyond words for me.

    I am a conservative. As such, I do NOT believe that the government should be given the right to make laws regarding our bodies, including abortion. There are times that it is absolutley justified, and it is not up to me or the government to impose my belief on what is “justifiable”.

    Having said that, all I can say is that no matter how you look at it, this was not justifiable. I don’t think the government should judge her, but I certainly can. She is a sick, murdering bitch. And her husband, who let this woman kill two of his children so their lives wouldn’t have been “inconvenienced is absolutley just as bad.

    My wife would run into a burning building to save our child, take a bullet, fight off a wild animal, get hit by a car. This woman wouldn’t change where she shopped or get a few stretch marks for her babies.

    She makes my skin crawl. She is a vile, disgusting, horrible person. Her parents should be ashamed, her friends appalled. And she probably did more to help the anti-abortion crowd than the abortion rights crowd by illustrating perfectly exactly to what depths people will sink when given the freedom to do so.

    A sobering thought. I don’t want to surrender any more of our freedoms to the government, but unless I do, my fellow citizens can commit acts like this unchecked.