Good grief. People can be so crass. (How's that for a "C" word?) ;)
I think my personal favorite is when I was called a whore for vaxing my outdoor cats against rabies but not vaxing my children against chicken pox. It was such an odd connection to draw all the way around (whore? really? and chicken pox = rabies???). Just...odd.
I get the same nervous twitch when people talk about removing parental choice from medical decisions as when people talk about requiring a test or license to become a parent. I get the impulse, but seriously...who sets the standards? Who interprets the data? Who makes that judgment call about someone else's family? Scary road to walk down.
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Date: 2009-02-23 09:33 pm (UTC)I think my personal favorite is when I was called a whore for vaxing my outdoor cats against rabies but not vaxing my children against chicken pox. It was such an odd connection to draw all the way around (whore? really? and chicken pox = rabies???). Just...odd.
I get the same nervous twitch when people talk about removing parental choice from medical decisions as when people talk about requiring a test or license to become a parent. I get the impulse, but seriously...who sets the standards? Who interprets the data? Who makes that judgment call about someone else's family? Scary road to walk down.