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    plainsmart1 year, 3 months ago

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    I think we need more comprehensive analysis of this tragedy. If only the Nebraska Legislature had really thought this through. It seems obvious to me that the people leaving all these kids at Nebraska Hospitals are desperate & probably hopeless. The Health & Human Services are dreadfully inadequate or unhelpful. But, we have a surplus! The law NEVER should have been passed as was.

    If people really want to get to solutions, they will need to accept readily available family planning services of ALL kinds,to males AND females of all ages, upon request. This includes birth control, abortion, adoption subsidies (if needed). People do not really have control over their reproduction with the impediments the so-called pro-lifers have gotten into the laws. Talk about intrusive government! All of the limitations to reproductive health access should be stripped from the books so this becomes a private, family matter again for all people, not just Sarah Palin's daughter.

    Public money SHOULD pay for sterilization ON REQUEST of the person, birth control, and subsidized adoption as needed. AND, public money should be used to shape up the Nebraska HHS so it is held accountable to provide modern, up to date services to all those real humans they are responsible for serving.

    I can't imagine what their lives are like to drop off 9 kids as the solution. Unicameral - get back to the drawing boards.

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      gladmymomchoselife1 year, 3 months ago

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      So you think it would of been better had the Mother aborted these children when she found out she was pregnant each time? Even though those nine kids are undoubtedly going through a difficult and emmotional time I have a feeling they are all glad their Mom made the choice to let them live rather than kill them before they were born. Aren't you glad your Mom made that choice?

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        jordan111 year, 3 months ago

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        So you think it would of been better had the Mother aborted these children when she found out she was pregnant each time?>>>>

        That isn't what the poster said. Have you never heard of birth control? She's trying to point out that in some cases it is not readily available.

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          ladyfaith1 year, 3 months ago

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          If I had been aborted, I wouldn't know, cuz I'd be dead. Life is great for me, but it couldn't be great for those kids whose parents don't want them. They might wish they'd been aborted.

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            none_of_your_biz1 year, 3 months ago

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            Actually, no. I often ask myself why couldn't I have been the one she aborted.

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              whohidthekeys1 year, 3 months ago

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              No, the proper suggestion is they get preventive measures to not conceive in the first place. While this particular remark included abortion, if you leave this out as an option and look at it as a preventive form of contraception than no life is taken. At the very least, contraception and preventing pregnancy really needs to be talked about more so that people aren't just procreating because they are too stupid to be responsible.

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                Tangent0011 year, 3 months ago

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                The so-called 'pro-life' movement wants to restrict contraceptive measures as well. In Colorado, the Focus on the Family movement has introduced a measure that would constitutionally define a 'human' as existing, with full rights, from the point of fertilization. Using that definition, the Pill would be outlawed, as would an IUD and the 'morning after' pill.

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                  orlithdm21 year, 3 months ago

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                  copper and hormone iuds can and have killed the sperm before they reached the egg or made the egg nonviable or none existant terefore they are not as bad as those prolifers would like you believe im prolife to a point. if it will kill you or harm the baby to be born then abortion can be the only solution!!

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                HateKoolAid1 year, 3 months ago

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                If she had made the opposite choice how would I have known??

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                  markmawn21 year, 3 months ago

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                  Perhaps you prefer suicide as a result of their self-esteem being trashed by being raised in an environment where they were not wanted? Who would give thanks for that?

                  I thought the government was not supposed to be good at handing out "Love".

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                    JMO1 year, 3 months ago

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                    Birth control mean anything! If you can't afford it learn natural methods. Or just plain keep your pants on!

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                      Tangent0011 year, 3 months ago

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                      Ah, I see, so paying for a fistful of condoms is LESS expensive than a mother delivering a child in an emergency room.

                      'Keep you pants on'? Are you kidding?

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                      mommyof2in081 year, 3 months ago

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                      The mother died a few days after she gave birth to the one year old. The father gave them up because he could not raise them on his own.

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                        Iriasu1 year, 3 months ago

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                        Yes. The children would have been better off. They wouldn't have had to go through this pain otherwise.

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                        coolbear761 year, 3 months ago

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                        I couldn't have said it better myself. Bravo!

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                          hangten1 year, 3 months ago

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                          plainsmart....ironic screen name considering the message you posted....

                          safe haven laws are in place for a situation just like this...and others. i have no praise for the parents in this scenario but the children are being cared for. i am an emergency department nurse. in my city, we on't have this happen often but are grateful when children are brought to us instead of being left in the desert to die.

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                            DeadXXXManXXXTalkin1 year, 3 months ago

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                            ''when children are brought to us instead of being left in the desert to die.''

                            you in Arizona or New Mexico?

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                            csw1105481 year, 3 months ago

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                            I TOTALLY AGREE THIS LAW WAS MADE FOR NEWBORNS AND INFANTS NOT YOUR WHOLE DAMN FAMILY WHEN YOUR DONE WITH THEM. THIS LAW SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN PASSED WITHOUT THEM THINKING OF THE OUTCOMES. WHAT KIND OF PARENT DROPS OFF ALL OF THEIR KIDS. IF WE HAD A SYSTEM THAT WOULD HELP THEM IT WOULD SOLVE THIS INSANITY.

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                              Tangent0011 year, 3 months ago

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                              But...but, that would be SOCIALISM!

                              We have an administration that doesn't even want to provide healthcare for millions of uncovered children. Somehow we can afford hundreds of billions of dollars for companies that willfully adopted bad business practices, but somehow can't pony up the dough for innocent, underprivileged children.

                              Sickening.

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                                whohidthekeys1 year, 3 months ago

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                                It isn't that simple. Unfortunately big companies often are part of other companies stock portfolio. AIG is owned by many other companies that are not in financial trouble. If AIG implodes than the stock portfolio of these other companies (literally hundreds, maybe even thousands) will lose value as well. It's kind of like making sure the foundation to your home is solid so everything else in it and around it can survive. It sounds selfish for the government to have intervened when clearly money is needed for seemingly far more important things and there are more important things, and this happens to be one of them. Our government really needs to stop giving money away to other countries and supporting other interests outside of the US until the US is solid and flourishing. But unfortunately people whose genuine interest in improving the economy and structure of the US don't run for public office.

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                                  Tangent0011 year, 3 months ago

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                                  "But unfortunately people whose genuine interest in improving the economy and structure of the US don't run for public office."

                                  No, most of them choose a more direct approach and become community organizers,

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                                    StevieGee1 year, 3 months ago

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                                    So what! Let em burn.

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                                  nykitten1 year, 3 months ago

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                                  I am glad at least the kids were left there safely. Haen't you ever heard of this woman who drown all her children?
                                  And another who tossed them off of a bridge? Come on people, think of the possbility of how things could have gone.
                                  People do desparate things, most of the time the results are devastating.

                                  The way our economy are going down the toilet, people have no way of getting out of their trouble. You will only hear more of this.
                                  But don't let the economy dictate how you put people in the Oval office, remember that.

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                                  munchinpeanuts1 year, 3 months ago

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                                  Instead of having abortions and killing innocent babies, why don't we try acting responsibly in the first place and using birth control so we don't get pregnant? There are so many easy ways to keep from getting pregnant, it just doesn't make any sense to have nine children you don't want. Although, I imagine the people didn't have nine children they didn't want, but with the economy the way it is, maybe the man felt the children would be better off this way. Sometimes life gets out of control and you do things you wouldn't normally do. Maybe he lost his job and doesn't even know how he's going to support himself, let alone nine children.

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                                    StevieGee1 year, 3 months ago

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                                    For a man to drop off 9 kids... It is unimaginable to me. This guy must have been in a tight spot indeed. In Nebraska they have laws that make abortion, birth control and other family services difficult to obtain. But 9 kids... Since any idiot would have figured this out after, maybe the seventh or eighth child, he is probably one of these people who don't believe in abortion, birth control, or family planing and has always been opposed to public financing for these services. Now we, the taxpayers get to raise his children. An abortion costs $400.00. A rubber costs $1.00. Raising 9 children costs $900,000. I am and always have been a fiscal conservative. I'm proud to be a member of the Democratic party. Gobama 08!

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                                      husbandhater1 year, 3 months ago

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                                      Barf

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                                        StevieGee1 year, 3 months ago

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                                        Husbandhater, I have 3 absolutely wonderful kids. I couldn't imagine abandoning them or living without them. My youngest boy is in South Carolina. This is the farthest and longest I've been away from any of them. I realize that you are a man hater but for this guy or anyone else to give up all of his children is impossible for me to comprehend. MEN DO LOVE THEIR CHILDREN!!! I hope you understand me now and good luck battling your bulimia.

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                                      demillicent1 year, 3 months ago

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                                      plainsmart
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                                      This includes birth control, abortion, adoption subsidies (if needed). People do not really have control over their reproduction with the impediments the so-called pro-lifers have gotten into the laws. Talk about intrusive government!
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                                      Your name seems to be a contradiction in terms. Lemme get this straight; you want the government to give out money to people just because they want it? You want the government to pay for birth control, adoption and abortion!! By the way; the government does give money to those who adopt children who are emotionally or mentally deficient. But I would say to you that the best form of birth control is to use a condom or just abstain when you're going through your fertile period. Since when are women to be surrogate mothers? We already have enough of that with these little trollops having babies and expecting for the tax payers to foot the bill for their indescretions. I'm sick of it!!

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                                        StevieGee1 year, 3 months ago

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                                        Little trollops? Wow you really are deficcient!

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                                        tinamairi1 year, 3 months ago

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                                        WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CAN'T IMAGINE? WE HAVE APRESIDENT THAT HAS DONE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING BUT GET THIS COUNTRY INTO TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN DEBT....CREATED THE HIGHEST JOBLESS RATE IN YEARS...SENT BILLIONS OF DOLLARS (16) IN "AID" TO "THE NEEDY" AFGANISTAN AND EVEN MORE TO IRAQ TO REBUILD THEIR GOVERNMENT....AND DOUBLED OUR GAS PRICES...STEEPLY INCREASED FOOD PRICES...SENT MILLIONS OF PEOPLE INTO FORECLOSURE...AND YET, OUR MINIMUM WAGE IS LESS THAN $7 AN HOUR. HMMMMMM....I CAN'T IMAGINE EITHER, WHAT LED THIS MAN TO BECOME SO DESPERATE ............LET'S JUST PRAY THAT THEY (KIDS AND DAD) ARE ALIVE AND HAVE THEIR BASIC NEEDS MET........

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                                          bstang7451 year, 3 months ago

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                                          They wouldn't have ever been concieved in the first place if proper birth control methods were being used.

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