Momotics » bans http://momotics.com Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:30:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Can We Ban San Francisco? http://momotics.com/can-we-ban-san-fran/ http://momotics.com/can-we-ban-san-fran/#comments Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:08:42 +0000 Danielle http://momotics.com/?p=2813 First it was Happy Meals! Then came the controversial vote to ban circumcision, and now of all things… goldfish! What the hell does San Francisco have against kids?

Maybe the lawmakers in this area just have no faith in parents making educated, and informed decisions for their children, no matter what they pertain to. Whether it is health choices, or pets!   I seriously cannot even believe some of these issues are even actual issues.

Banning Happy Meals?  As a parent who uses “Happy Meals” as a reward, and not a main means of feeding my children, this pisses me off all the way across the country!   Yes, obesity is an epidemic in this country and it is becoming more and more popular among children, but new studies have been repeatedly showing that obesity is less likely in babies that are breastfed.   I don’t see San Francisco going out on a slippery limb to ban formula sales in their area.   That would be nothing short of insane right?

Now goldfish?  Come on! The reason for the ban?   Goldfish are often “bred in inhumane” environments to be mass produced. For a fish that typically lasts about a week, and ends up somewhere in the public sewer system, I think the fact that they are even taking the time to debate over this, while the state itself is in huge debt, and there are much more serious issues facing the citizens of the city, and the country as a whole… makes me wonder about the lawmakers in this city, and what the hell they are actually thinking.

One can only hope that the voters in the city will realize what a joke these people are, and vote them out once their term is over. Because it is making the city look foolish to the rest of the country.

Can we just ban San Francisco from the rest of the country?

**Please do not turn this post into a circumsision debate!  Comments left in a inflamitory or debating manner WILL be deleted!**



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Emergency situations can happen in any kind of childbirth, previous cesarean or not, and there have even been cases of uterine rupture without any type of a previous cesarean section. So because of this I feel as though this excuse on many levels is simply that, and excuse.

Why not just come out and say we are

  • lazy
  • scared of getting sued
  • misogynistic
  • anti reproductive choices

We don’t want women to use their own vagina to birth their babies, we want the big bucks from the repeat cesareans!

Here’s to hoping NIH’s VBAC conference will help turning around all the National VBAC Ban’s and help the VBAC rate rise again!



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