If they're hungry ??? Seems to me that I've seen where male bears will avoid the females with cubs because they don't want to get in a fight to the death with her - because she WILL do just that to protect her cubs. Perhaps in cases of EXTREME hunger I couls see it.... Or did you make that one up ? Males of many animals - lions and feral cats come to mind first - will kill the babies of other males for the purpose of getting the females back into 'heat' so that they can make their own offspring. And yes. sometimes they will eat them, but not from hunger. Perhaps your bears should be put into this catagory as well ??
http://www.marceline.k12.mo.us/~project/~earth_sys/schmitt/Grizzlies.html Baby and Adolescent Mortality The survival of bear cubs is extremely tenuous. Up to 40% of brown bears cubs will die during their first year of life. Starvation, and disease will claim a number of cubs. Wolves, bobcats, eagles, mountain lions are also known to kill young cubs who become separated from their mother's side. Infanticide is also a factor. Predation of cubs by adult male brown bears is also quite common. Three reasons have been postulated to account for infanticide: to provide food; to create a breeding opportunity for a male bear; and to reduce competition for common territory. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3712/is_199909/ai_n8868383 http://iberianature.blogspot.com/2005/06/bear-infanticide-and-lack-of-carrion.html Infanticide among Cantabrian bears June 12th 2005 Following the killing of four cubs by two adult male bears last week in Leon (see Adult male bears kill four cubs in Leon (Nueva España), FAPAS have highlighted the prevalence of bear infanticide in Asturias , specifically in Somiedo, where eight of the nine bear cubs born in the last eight years have been killed by adult bears. While FAPAS sees infanticide among bears as a natural phenomenon, it considers the rate of incidence to be abnormal.
Why do your kind vote for more pollution in our water and air that poisons our children? Why do your kind vote for mutilating meek and helpless animals? Why do your kind cut public funds to provide nourishing food for children in poverty? Why are your kind against adopting un-wanted babies. Yet stay silent when these babies are flushed down a public toilet? Why are you kind against giving a temporary helping hand for those who are in need of temporary help to get back on their feet? Why do your kind support murder and torture of foreign peoples who have caused you no harm? Look at the evil within yourselves before casting your baseless accusations. There is no proof that a fetus has any viability as a consious being during the first trimester. I agree with limited abortions after the first trimester. For the religious fundamentalist nuts. Look at abortion like this. God never meant the baby to be born in the first place. That is why He had it aborted. If you believe in God, then you know everything is his will. Right? Quote from jem: My question is quite the reverse. Why do liberals who wish to protect spotted owls and least terns and support the ethical treatment of animals all of a sudden say the killing of a baby as it is leaving the vagina in a very barbaric manner is o.k.
Male animal species will kill a females offspring to bring the female back into estrus. Quote from vhehn: Following the killing of four cubs by two adult male bears last week in Leon (see Adult male bears kill four cubs in Leon (Nueva España), FAPAS have highlighted the prevalence of bear infanticide in Asturias , specifically in Somiedo, where eight of the nine bear cubs born in the last eight years have been killed by adult bears. While FAPAS sees infanticide among bears as a natural phenomenon, it considers the rate of incidence to be abnormal.
You are basing an enormous part of your argument on how "precious life" is. War, regardless of where it is waged, spits in the face of that belief. Not only did you support a war that was started with flawed logic, but you apparently support starting a second one as well. I brought that up to discredit the basis for your belief that "life is precious". Apparently, its only precious on your terms according to your version of morality. There's a word for this: hypocrisy. No, the reference fits and it stays; deal with it. ??????? Anti-American issues?????? I point out all the above examples as flaws to our society's attitudes towards human life and I'm called Anti-American? I didn't realize that they were such revered aspects of American behavior. No, they stay as well (especially after that rebuttal of yours), because they reflect my stance that America's standards for the sanctity of human life is seriously twisted. All the above are examples of practices that too many find acceptable, negligible, or both. I don't see the so-called "Right to Life" movement attacking any of those issues. Are the lives of the victims of those practices not "precious"? This shoe fits as well: hypocrisy. Yes you do; good luck with that. I absolutely adore them. I want them to grow up to be productive, loving human beings that respect the rights of others. I want them to grow up in complete control of their own bodies and minds. I don't want a future for them in a society that would rob them of that freedom simply because there are those that think they know what is best for them. I made this statement on page 3 to no one in particular: "Before any of you give this crap about adoption being an answer to the problem, I'd like to know how many of you "outraged" people have adopted children from such circumstances." You responded to FredBloggs on page 4 for with this statement (apparently not having read my statement on page 3): "Who says the baby will be hated, neglected and abused? If a woman doesn't want the child, she can put it up for adoption." When I am passionate about asserting my point of view on a subject (obviously I am about this one), I go directly for the throat. I assure you, I am perfectly calm. Like Hannibal Lecter, my pulse never peaked 80. Apparently, you seem to interpret my approach to this discussion as being "aggressive" to the point of a melt down of some sort. Well, I can't help how you perceive anything; and where this subject is concerned, I'm not going to even try. If you want to pull the splinter out of my eye; you better believe I'm going to give the plank dangling out of yours a good smack to remind you that its there.
Nope, I don't have to worry about that. Instead, I get the wonderful task of sewing them back up after their fathers or boyfriends beat them within an inch of their lives for coming home pregnant. This shit happens every day in America. Like I said before, you are operating under the assumption that all of them have this wonderful family network of support that believes that "life is precious". Nope, I know my place in the gender food chain. Apparently, you don't. I just don't have the heart to tell the pregnant teenager that she's just going to have to go home and risk abandonment, humiliation, torture, destitution, state custody, or even death. Do you? Chew on this one for a minute: there's not a damn thing you, I, or anyone else can do about it either if she tells you that its probably going to happen. She's a minor and (the cops like to say) tend to exaggerate. Any interference and you can be charged with kidnapping or delinquency, because she hasn't had her ass beat yet to prove that the accusation was true. Nope, not even close to being an issue. You're really reaching. Nope; still reaching. The above was simply one example of many reasons. However my best one: You do not, nor anyone else, have a right to tell someone else what will happen to their body.PERIOD. Its so pathetically hypocritical of you to say that you believe in how "precious life" is, but assert that you have a right to dictate the outcome of others' lives, sometimes at the risk of their own peril, for the sake of your own morality. Its so pathetically hypocritical for you to assert that you believe in freedom yet still feel like you can dictate the choices of others. Can you handle the truth?
You are one retarded idiot that can't even capatalize a first word in a sentence. Are you even sure you can read and understand anything that I have wrote with your 2nd grade education? Go have an abortion and make yourself happy.
Okay, ConMan (nice name by the way). So you think it takes a religious fundamentalist nut to realize that baby killing is wrong? It just takes people with an education higher than 2nd grade! I believe that most who believe in God's will also believe in the Devil's evil. I guess we could equate abortion to the Devil's evil if we wanted to use your reasoning/logic.
riserburn I am not going to let you drag "Irag" into this discussion. It is a moot point. It is a totally different situation than abortion and I do believe you are smart enough to know the difference. What you said about nursing homes, sex slaves and violence in America as entertainment was ridiculous to say the least. No more needs to be said about that one. You say you want children to grow up and be in complete control of their bodies and minds. Does this include drug use? Drinking and driving? In our state the legislature just passed a bill that will face a drunk to go to prison if convicted 5 times in 7 years. Why? Because if it was 4 times in 7 years there would be over 300+ drunks put into prison. With the bill just passed, it will only amount to between 20 to 30. So innocent mothers, fathers and children will die at the hands of drunks to save money. Thank goodness for our Democratic legislature. Last year 222 people died at the hands of drunk drivers in our state. Comparing yourself to Hannibal Lecter is kind of funny... I don't think I will comment on that one...:eek: Oh jeez, there you go again about the "life is precious" thing... Give it a break will ya? So you sew up teenagers when they come home pregnant because their fathers/boy friends have beat them up? This is your basis for thinking abortion is an answer to this? We all know it doesn't take a pregnancy for domestic violence to happen... In fact I am sure most DV cases do not involve pregnancy. Kind of wondering what "I know my place in the gender food chain" means. Can you explain? When you talk about no one has the right to tell someone else what to do with their body... how can you sit there in front of your computer knowing that abortion is "sure death" to a fetus while it is only minimally dangerous to the mother and say I have a problem with being hypocritical of "life being precious"? Life in the womb is just as precious as the life carrying it. Without life in the womb life would stop. Period. When a woman becomes pregnant, she now carries another life (person) in her womb. What gives her the right to destroy it? Sure, pregnancy can be annoying, inconvenient and no fun. So we just flush it down the toilet if we don't want it? With this logic, we might as well start flushing old people down the toilet too, or at least exterminate them at age 60....
Little know fact: Teenage suicide is higher in girls who have had abortions than girls who have not had abortions. Go look it up. Maybe they would still be alive if...