The always entertaining Angry Pharmacist with his take:
I personally would of called up the doctors office and asked them why they were writing a fertility drug to a patient that obviously could not take care of her self, but for some reason thought that bringing a child into the world would magically make her problems go away. What kind of dip**** retarded doctor would write for this? Oh, one of those “Everyone has a right to a family, blah blah blah”. Yeah, you pay for that ****ing kid so we don’t have to.
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Better yet–I have been asked to do a hysterosalpingogram on a medicaid patient. Large philosophical issues.
While I sympathize with the general sentiment, I just have to say this:
it’s not “would of”, it’s “would have”. I don’t know if the “Angry
Pharmacist” is a native English speaker or not. I am not, and I see
these mistakes being made by native English speakers all the time.
Why is it so friggin’ hard to learn your own language? If I make a
mistake, at least I have an excuse….
Even if everyone does have a “right” to a family (don’t remember reading that anywhere, kind of a liberal interpretation of pursuit of happiness, I guess), but does that mean everyone has a “right” to Clomid as a means to get a family? I don’t see any reason to conclude so, any more than everyone has a “right’ to contraceptives.
I suppose if the state in question has included Clomid among the drugs on its Medicaid beneficiary formulary, then the issue is one of public policy and entitlements.
I guess the right to a family has to do with the right to your own body, to use it however you see fit, and making a family is (maybe unfortunately) one of those functions.
Ditto on the “would of” remark!
Anon 5:54,
Blogging is considered an “informal” medium of communication. Text messaging, email, informal letters, and journals also fall in this category. Blogs are often used to record thoughts as they occur and are often done without being proofread. Don’t be the Grammar Nazi
But just for posterity, the punctuation in your post should have been included inside the quotation.
“Put commas and periods within closing quotation marks, except when a parenthetical reference follows the quotation.”
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
handouts/grammar/g_quote.html
some people pay more for the care of their dogs… why is it such a problem if a woman wants to bring a kid in to society. yea i think society SHOULD pay…. that person can do things for society later on. let her have kids.
Yeah… like the join the local turf gang, be a crack baby or perform a host of other functions that benefit society. Your right to pop your uterus stops at your ability to be financially responsible for your decisions. It is about time we had some means testing on the privilege of birthing to ensure that the “social contract” is actually a two way street and not just a continued method for supporting irresponsible behavior.
Having children is not a RIGHT. Do it if you want to, don’t do it if you don’t, and never expect anyone’s help unless you are willing to pay.
Anon 7:29
Give me a break. This is a mistake that a first-year student studying English would not make. We’re not talking about fine rules of punctuation or misspelling an SAT word here.
one thing i have to say is medicaid helps people who can not afford insurance. thats what we pay taxes for. just because we dont make a lot on our unprof job, doesnt mean we dont have a right to try to have a family if we are having problems. the last job i worked we had insurance but it cost over 400 a month. good grief, and i would hardly use it. so what if a woman comes in getting meds to help her get pregnant. its better than some crack head coming in to get pain med for no reason. you never know, the child she make might be the one to change this world for the better. have you ever heard take from the poor , give to the rich??!! no, its take from the rich and give to the poor. but i dont think it should be either way. it should be we all help each other be the happyest we can be with out judging someone befor you know them. i never have gotten anything like that on medicaid but i have had med when i was preg. i might not be rich, but i have paid taxes my whole life and i dont see nothing wrong in using what i have put in.
I just think its pretty pathetic that someone would go and judge a person by what “Insurance” you have. Everyone at one time or another goes through hard times yet he didn’t know this woman he judged her by what type of insurance she carried and thats the kind of people we having living in the usa judging a person by their insurance on how good or bad of a parent she would be seems pretty pathetic to me to go and judge everyone who is low income and some of these people that commented on this saying Crack Babies and Baby mama which is also racial. Just shows the world we live in today
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