Perhaps if LW wants to be taken care of for her looks, she could give being a sugar baby a crack:  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/magazine/12sugardaddies-t.html

Getting a degree however is a much more stable way to ensure financial security. Your BA won’t up and leave for another woman. 

If you believe the disabled are a minority group like other minority groups, then yes.

Genocide is simply defined by the UN as an attempt to eliminate a group from either one place, or everywhere. It’s not doesn’t even have to be mass murder. They also list sterilizations of the women to keep them from reproducing. 

My mother was told she should end my life because I was going to be disabled. Thankfully, she recognized that being disabled does not mean you don’t have a right to live. (She was trying to have a baby, and would not have aborted a healthy one)

 (I would concede that any birth defect that is fatal soon after birth doesn’t fit into the disabled-as-a-minority framework) 

I think there is a fundamental assumption that pro-choice people have, which is that fetuses are not babies, but organs. Given that assumption, then there is nothing wrong with abortion. But no one has ever convinced me, or a large number of people in this country, that a baby is not a baby just because it’s not viable outside the womb. It has a heart, and a brain, and brainwaves, and different genetic material. 

As for giving up your organs for another person, it’s not the best analogy. It is unfair that 50% of humans can never be subjected to an unwanted pregnancy, arbitrarily saying that it is ok to end the life of a baby because the woman doesn’t want to be pregnant for a relatively short period of time doesn’t make sense to me. It would be nice if no one ever had an unwanted pregnancy, and yes it is unfair that some people aren’t at risk for that, but thats not a justification for killing. I believe there is one case where a person can be obligated to support another life with their body. With the exception of rape, the situation one person is dependent on the support of another is caused by the actions of one of the mother. Just because the situation is unfair to the woman who got pregnant compared to the man who impregnated her doesn’t mean that this should be rectified by killing the baby. 

So yes, if it’s my child, because the only way to NOT donate those things would be to directly end their life.

 While the baby/fetus debate is at the heart of all abortions, I was drawn to the comments on this article by the horrible assumption that in the case of disability, abortion is more justified. 

Both of these are urban myths that no one can show any evidence for real life origins. I had never read your column before and I was interested to see what it was about, but I’ve lost any respect for you as a source of any type of reliable information because (a) this is an OLD urban myth and (b) a quick google search on the topic would reveal that it was the product of mass parental hysteria. It’s possible that somewhere at sometime, probably after hearing about such things from the media, some teens decided to spice up their already existing sex lives with some bracelets, but seriously, this is more indicative of the fear and fascination adults have about teen sexuality than how things actually are.

http://www.snopes.com/risque/school/bracelet.asp

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/30/fashion/thursdaystyles/30rainbow.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2