I’m not a fan of IVF. I understand why some people do it, but I also don’t share the belief that anyone has a ‘right’ to have children, especially if you aren’t the one footing the bill to have the IVF (which is what a lot of IVF proponents want here in Canada). As harsh as it is to say, if you aren’t able to have a…

I imagine the clause of “not responsible for support or care” in that provision would be pretty quickly challenged and thrown out were this law to pass.

But, could a State legally force implantation? That seems like something even the Republicans wouldn’t be able to get passed. I guess they’d be more likely to just throw you in jail if you didn’t so that their private prison buddies would get paid.

Not knowing much of anything about IVF or freezing such material, why did you have them pre-fertilized before freezing? I thought that the eggs and sperm could be separately frozen for future “use” if you were unable to do so later?

I guess the issue you have is that one of the donors ends up being the biological ‘parent’ to someone that they weren’t consulted in existing down the road. Also, if the contract isn’t going to be binding that was originally signed, then you know that the whole ‘not responsible for care or support’ clause will be…

I don’t really know why Buick decided to go and put the ugly shnoze and butt on the car. They should have done to it what they did to the Regal, and just take one round badge off and put another one on. The Astra sedan was a decent looking car....

But 11 herbs and spices!

I thought they shared platform with the Accord of the day, but with obvious reworking on the front.

Um, unless you mean ‘based on a Honda available in the US’, then might I present the following:

Not to be picky, but isn’t it a bit of a stretch to put Woody Harrelson in the ‘not crazy’ basket? I’m not saying he’s loony toons, but.....

That could be said about a lot of things lately.

I’ve obviously inferred altruism where I didn’t mean to. I’m not suggeting becoming a parent is altruistic, but arguments I’ve read for having an equivilancy (yet un vetted) leave time is “well, what if I want to do this altruistic thing? Isn’t that worth the leave the same as having a kid?” Some of those things might…

Everything is a choice, but some choice have longer lasting commitment levels. Parenting is totally a choice (although it is one that society puts immense pressure on people to take on, even when they shouldn’t) but it is also a responsibility you pretty much cannot back out on once it is made, unlike a lot of things…

You shouldn’t receive special privileges that others cannot receive based on that CHOICE because you or anyone else feels its somehow more “self-less” and worthy of value than what someone else chooses to do with their time.

How is paid vacation time (whatever you tend to get) not paid time off for yourself? That is (generally) the whole point of it. I fully agree with your paid leave for birth/illness/care for relative, and even the idea of after 10 years getting the option of a sabbatical, but having a paid leave for whatever over and…

Yeah, that isn’t cool either. When it comes to scheduling, no one should get preferential treatment over anyone else. Just because you’re a parent shouldn’t mean you get the 8-4 shift all the time.

And for those things you note there (death in family or other life-demanding thing that requires personal time off) I don’t disagree. But, from what I’ve read (and commented on) here there seem to be a lot of people who are “well, having kids is a life choice/goal, and I don’t have/want kids but have life choice/goals…

Cite something that is at the same level as having a child and sure, I’d agree with you. But consoling a friend who’s had a bad break-up or feeding your dog(s) at 6pm vs 7:30pm? Not even in the same playground. Now, always getting dumped on to pick up the slack for parents who shrug off their work responsibilities to…

That example (people who get a primo job only a year later to take mat leave) is one that always bugs me as well. I realize that most of the time that happens, but I have known two occasions of people who got a job like that and then were like “okay, now I can go and get pregnant”. It’s a fairly crappy attitude that…