I never said I didn't like opinions and discussions, I said that you were wrong, and acting like kind of a jackass. Learn the difference. You claimed, unequivocably, that these women. "will treat the child as a mistake, and make her feel awful about herself, possibly leading to emotional abuse," based on absolutely…

Well, that was an embarrassing, ignorant spew in response to a reasonable commenter who dared not to share your obnoxious love of recreational outrage.

You sound like you have a screw or two loose, to be frank.

Are you serious? Moving costs serious cash, and she didn't have a negligent company that screwed up so royally she could get them to foot the bill, before. Now she does. Besides, the words the lawyers choose to get her the best deal and make her out to be the biggest victim don't say anything about her attitudes…

Why do you make all these uninformed assumptions about how these women feel and how they will treat their child? You know nothing at all!

She has a fair gripe. She was impregnated with sperm she did not consent to receiving. She consented to receive one man's sperm and received another whom she did not consent to - in…

If she's smart, she's going to sue for whatever legal rationale her lawyers tell her has the highest chance of winning and the best chance of payout. It doesn't mean she doesn't love her daughter. But she didn't sign on for all the cultural and ethical complexities that come with raising a child outside your…

Sure, but I said, "I would hope that race isn't the reason she's upset," not, "I would hope that race isn't the specific legal rationale her lawyers recommended." Virtually all sperm recipients choose their donors very carefully, so it's pretty much a given that she had very real reasons for wanting the donor she…

The strongest legal argument with the highest potential payoff is not necessarily the same thing as her personal feelings on the matter. In all likelihood she chose a donor for a very specific list of reasons, from health to talents to height - most sperm recipients do - and then found out her chosen donor was not the…

Incidentally, medical malpractice has to include some element of harm to the plaintiff, so in order to sue for medical malpractice she would have to prove that having a black baby caused some harm to her, and then we're back where we started, with emotional distress. But who needs facts when you have blind,…

Wow, you must be fun at parties.

I made a mild little comment addressing what the issue made me think of, a possible side consideration, and a gentle hope that the parents' reasoning was something less potentially damaging to the child. I did not yell, or imply yelling, nor did I get upset at you for 'not considering'…

Do you seriously not think that a company that just kind of says "Whups! Wrong vial, LOL, different baby for you!" shouldn't be held accountable for that? Besides, having a mixed-race baby has a whole different set of challenges in this world than a white baby, unfortunately. And it will be doubly difficult to help…

Prospective parents choose sperm based on lots of criteria, not just race. General health, for example, being one of them. I don't know, I would hope that race itself is not the reason she's upset. If I had chosen a sperm donor for their high IQ, motivated character, and, say, lack of predisposition to certain…

This is such a perfect example of why it's not "just a little pinch" or "just a complement" etc ad nauseam... is such crap. First of all, because let's hear you say that when you have to fend off grabby invasive hands everywhere you go, and secondly, because if you ignore a woman's autonomy in one way, it shows a…

"Brownback is so desperate to fill the massive hole..."

I see what you did there.

Oh dang! You really got me, person on the internet who has no idea who I am! Way to call me out with a totally informed opinion of my personality!

Thank God Urban Dictionary is here to accurately dictate our social conscience

I had a highschool creative writing prof that actually marked you down for every "said". He thought every conversation should be a long list of, "He screamed, she whispered, he gasped..." Then, one time, he was making a point about sentence structure or something and grabbed a book at random, and read a chunk of it…

I don't know who either of these people are. I'm only 25. I'm too young to be this out of the loop!

Cue the self-righteous indiscriminate cop-lovers whining, "It was totally justified! She gave him a mean look and also kind of stepped in his direction sort of so what else COULD he do OH GOD I AM SO ADDICTED TO THE IDEA OF INFALLIBLE AUTHORITY KEEPING ME SAFE FOREVER where is my binky.

Wow... I mean wow. That was just... so appallingly racist. I mean, flat out, vile, irrational ignorance. You know absolutely jack about anything you just said, which is embarrassingly transparent to any Canadian who pays any attention at all to the affairs of their own country. I thought about spelling out every…

The fish had whales to protect them from seals. Then we fucked that all up. Seals kept right on fuckin', made more seals that weren't getting eaten by whales. You know, same story that's happened a million times over.