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Post by delirium on Oct 4, 2009 20:34:36 GMT -5
Didn't Rick Santorum do something like that?
The fetus-worship among pro-lifers is creepy.
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Post by SimSim on Oct 4, 2009 20:50:30 GMT -5
<shudder>Rick Santorum</shudder>He probably did, then demanded his wife get back in the kitchen.
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Post by Tiger on Oct 4, 2009 21:31:08 GMT -5
If it gives them emotional closure, I don't really see any reason not to allow it. If a grieving former-mother-to-be wants to name their fetus, by all means. I don't think there needs to be a legal process for it, or that government employees should be forced to write out death certificates for an entity that never really existed. They should have more important things to do with their time. I think helping a grieving woman cope is worth a few minutes of some low-level bureaucrat's time. It doesn't matter whether or not you agree that it's important, it's about whether or not it's important to them.
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Post by David D.G. on Oct 5, 2009 10:19:46 GMT -5
As a woman who has miscarried, I fully disapprove of this latest asshattery. There is NO NEED to make a legal document for someone who died before they were even born. You can name them all you like, but the government is not there to justify your emotions. They don't even need to be justified. If you feel this was your child, then that's how it is. Getting all the legal tape to go with it is unhealthy. It's called obsession, and it needs to be stopped. And yes, I named my miscarriage. It's called "coping". Doing anything more than that, however, is a rather scary road to go down. Thanks for the personal-experience input, Lady Renae. And my sympathies to you for having had that experience in the first place. ~David D.G.
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Post by The_L on Oct 5, 2009 19:12:06 GMT -5
I can understand privately giving your miscarried fetus a name, and even symbolically burying an effigy of some kind, to give you a sense of closure.
But why the hell would you expect the government to let you legally name a child that was never born? Citizenship starts at birth!
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Post by clockworkgirl21 on Oct 5, 2009 23:00:07 GMT -5
My mom was pregnant once, but the baby died five months in. They aborted it, and she gave it a name, anyway. His name was Peter, because that's what she was going to name him.
But actually writing up a birth/death certificate is stupid. The government has more important things to do.
With most miscarriages, there isn't even anything to bury. Just a blob. Maybe if the fetus was more formed? How far can we go with this? I want the egg that I bled out this month named Tom!
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Post by DeadpanDoubter on Oct 6, 2009 22:23:11 GMT -5
My mom was pregnant once, but the baby died five months in. They aborted it, and she gave it a name, anyway. His name was Peter, because that's what she was going to name him. But actually writing up a birth/death certificate is stupid. The government has more important things to do. With most miscarriages, there isn't even anything to bury. Just a blob. Maybe if the fetus was more formed? How far can we go with this? I want the egg that I bled out this month named Tom! No, silly, it doesn't count unless it had that piece of male DNA stuck in there, too.
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