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The latest eco-fads: Abortion and tube-tying

By Michelle Malkin • November 23, 2007 01:33 PM

So, environmental nitwits are killing their unborn children and sterilizing themselves to protect the planet (hat tip: Allah). I suppose we should be grateful these people are not reproducing:

At the age of 27 this young woman at the height of her reproductive years was sterilised to “protect the planet”.

Incredibly, instead of mourning the loss of a family that never was, her boyfriend (now husband) presented her with a congratulations card.

While some might think it strange to celebrate the reversal of nature and denial of motherhood, Toni relishes her decision with an almost religious zeal.

“Having children is selfish. It’s all about maintaining your genetic line at the expense of the planet,” says Toni, 35.

“Every person who is born uses more food, more water, more land, more fossil fuels, more trees and produces more rubbish, more pollution, more greenhouse gases, and adds to the problem of over-population.”

While most parents view their children as the ultimate miracle of nature, Toni seems to see them as a sinister threat to the future.

We’ve seen this anti-children animus before. Back in May, you may remember, a green think tank issued a report on how kids are bad for the planet:

HAVING large families should be frowned upon as an environmental misdemeanour in the same way as frequent long-haul flights, driving a big car and failing to reuse plastic bags, says a report to be published today by a green think tank.

The paper by the Optimum Population Trust will say that if couples had two children instead of three they could cut their family’s carbon dioxide output by the equivalent of 620 return flights a year between London and New York.

John Guillebaud, co-chairman of OPT and emeritus professor of family planning at University College London, said: “The effect on the planet of having one child less is an order of magnitude greater than all these other things we might do, such as switching off lights.

“The greatest thing anyone in Britain could do to help the future of the planet would be to have one less child.”

Not a big leap from there to here.

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#101

On December 13th, 2007 at 12:52 pm, Gabe said:

At the age of 27 this young woman at the height of her reproductive years was sterilised to “protect the planet”.

It is funny how similar the environmental wackos are to the Gnostics of the first centuries A.D.: Secret knowledge that only the elite knows, a worship of creatures and the inanimate, pantheism, dislike of traditional Christianity. . .and now, just like the Gnostics, a dislike of reproduction.

Strange how liberals keep recreating the same mistakes.
#102

On December 17th, 2007 at 2:12 pm, Bogtrotter said:

I whole heartedly support every lib/dem and ecofreak who wants to spare the planet the burden of more of their kind. Run to whatever free clinic you can find and have your tubes tied or a vasectomy procedure. Do it now before it is too late!!!!
#103

On December 19th, 2007 at 4:04 pm, kmasitti said:

This is why the public schools try to indoctrinate your children, they don’t have any of their own left to brainwash. How else will the wingnuts survive?