Katy, I am truly sorry for your personal information being 'outed' by a newspaper. I just read a book about brave French women (Catholic) who resisted the Nazi invasion of France long before the word Resistance was being used. I'm not comparing their torture and being sent to a concentration camp with what happened to you (thank God we're not there) nor am I comparing the newspaper with the Nazis, but you are showing courage well in advance of most people recognizing the danger surrounding us.
Add to this the increasing use of language conflating pet owners with mothers ("fur moms," "dog dads," etc.) and comparing their roles as being on par with the immense sacrifice required of giving birth to a human child, raising it, caring for it, and watching it develop, and I don't even know how we're going to return from the dystopian brink of anti-natalism and denigration of what has been mankind's most sacred act of self-sacrifice since the dawn of time: motherhood.
Being able to create a child completely without a mother is horrifying to me, as I think about my own mother and my son. Even for people who hate their mothers, robbing someone of that is... staggering. Any yet I know people will do it because there is always someone who won't ask, just because I can do this, does that mean I should? Even if it's never legal, which I find unlikely, someone somewhere will do it and my heart is broken for those children. Thank you so much for doing what you're doing and sharing the messages you do. God bless you.
Katy, I am truly sorry for your personal information being 'outed' by a newspaper. I just read a book about brave French women (Catholic) who resisted the Nazi invasion of France long before the word Resistance was being used. I'm not comparing their torture and being sent to a concentration camp with what happened to you (thank God we're not there) nor am I comparing the newspaper with the Nazis, but you are showing courage well in advance of most people recognizing the danger surrounding us.
Add to this the increasing use of language conflating pet owners with mothers ("fur moms," "dog dads," etc.) and comparing their roles as being on par with the immense sacrifice required of giving birth to a human child, raising it, caring for it, and watching it develop, and I don't even know how we're going to return from the dystopian brink of anti-natalism and denigration of what has been mankind's most sacred act of self-sacrifice since the dawn of time: motherhood.
I'm not sure we're going to return at all. And, yes, the pet owner thing is offensively absurd.
There is no one more important to a baby than his/her mother: https://lucyleader.substack.com/p/what-is-a-mother
Notice that it is mainly men working to remove women from motherhood: https://lucyleader.substack.com/p/artificial-wombs-and-fake-babies
Being able to create a child completely without a mother is horrifying to me, as I think about my own mother and my son. Even for people who hate their mothers, robbing someone of that is... staggering. Any yet I know people will do it because there is always someone who won't ask, just because I can do this, does that mean I should? Even if it's never legal, which I find unlikely, someone somewhere will do it and my heart is broken for those children. Thank you so much for doing what you're doing and sharing the messages you do. God bless you.
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