You may not have that bias but since the only group who would realistically be affected if your opinion was shared by enough people would be older women, the outcome is the same as if you were only criticizing the woman.
That Pimp-Ass Fetus
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What if you live in a region, country or county with low life expectancy? Perhaps you should be discouraged from selfishly having children at all. Or maybe encouraged to have children in your teens and maybe early twenties otherwise—selfish. Selfish selfish selfish. Unlike all of the other reproductive choices we make…
Yeah, but almost anyone could die tomorrow. There’s someone at my work where her sister-in-law runs marathons and eats healthy and all that, super young, who had mouth cancer recently. A lot of people don’t have back-up plans, and we definitely don’t censure them as much as the comments in this article have been. I…
Stories like this make me uncomfortable, because, while it’s a absolute fact that having a baby at 70 is not an ideal situation, the vitriol in the comments directed at the mother upsets me. I saw it in the article on Sophie B Hawkins announcing her pregnancy at 50 too, but I was too timid to speak up then. Who the…
It’s in the article -
Yeah- there is a real possibility for a “slippery slope” in the argument people are putting forth here. What age *isn’t* too old? 50? 40? If we say she’s just being selfish here, what is to say a 45-year-old isn’t? Or a 30-year-old with high cholesterol?
It seems that this woman and her doctor did the due diligence to ensure a healthy pregnancy was possible. As someone who has experienced infertility for the past 3 year (currently pregnant after fertility treatment- wish me luck!), this is a deeply personal issue and everyone deserves the chance to decide for…
I wear a 40E and bralettes do not make my chest look good, but I still wear them a lot. They were all I could wear when I tried to heal a nipple piercing and they are much comfier
Oh my god competency isn't the same as not guilty by reason of insanity. Read the other comments.
Unfit to stand trial and an insanity defense are different things. A bit confusing to a layman (like myself) but someone up above was kind enough to explain:
Remember, Hinckley wasn’t ever found competent for trial and we still have him in federal custody. The genuenly criminally ill aren’t being dropped off on the curb with bus fare.
The issue isn’t whether he was competent during the crime, but whether he is competent to participate in his defense now.
The ruling wasn't that he didn't know what he was doing, it was that he wasn't able to turn the crazy off long enough to allow his attorneys to defend him.
That is more or less it. Competency to stand trial is not the same thing as “not guilty by reason of insanity.” If a person is not competent to stand trial, the entire undertaking is invalid, while an insanity defense generally means you did not understand what you were doing at the time of the offense.
FWIW, being found incompetent to stand trial is different from an insanity defense. When you’re incompetent you go to a mental hospital and are medicated until you can have a basic understanding of what’s going on in the court room. Then you stand trial. He may ultimately present an insanity defense at his jury trial,…
Do you understand the charges against you, including the consequences of a guilty verdict?
Well, in this case it’s not an insanity defense. Insanity is a plea entered at the trial, whereas this man is being deemed not competent to stand trial. Basically, they’re saying his mental illness renders him unfit to participate in his own defense, and he is being remanded to the custody of a mental institution…
And even if he’d been found not guilty by insanity, he’d still be in a secure treament facility for the rest of his life. The article didn’t say otherwise, I just know a lot of people have this image of “the insanity defense” as a get out of jail free card, when a lot of defense attorneys feel that an insanity finding…
Just a quick reminder that being found incompetent to stand trial does not mean he is off the hook. He is going to be held in a secure psychiatric facility, and will face trial in the even he is ever found to be competent.