Smoking while Pregnant

Originally Posted by Chibi Neko

Would you consider smoking while pregnant child abuse? Do you think it should be outlawed if the woman is carrying the child to term?

It's not illegal to smoke around a minor, either. I highly doubt you'd even be able to get a law like that passed--not to mention one that would put the unborn's rights on the same level as the mother's.

Incidentally, the only time the unborn counts legally as a separate entity from the mother is if they both get murdered. Then it's a double homicide.

Originally Posted by Chibi Neko

I questioned my cousin while she was having a smoke on her 7th month, and she told me that the doctor told her is it bad to stop smoking cold turkey and could harm her baby... is this true?

No. It's called justification. She should have quit when she found she was pregnant, then the baby wouldn't have any withdrawl symptoms at all. And even withdrawl symptoms are still infinitely better than force-feeding the unborn carcinogens and nicotine. Continuing to smoke now just means she's still as selfish as she was 7 months ago.

This is what it comes down to: people are fucking selfish, and they put their personal needs over the needs of their kids. These people will do this while pregnant and will continue to do so as the kids grow up. Unless they do something blatantly abusive, nothing's going to happen. as far as government intervention is concerned. And ordinarily selfish parents are still probably better than the shit situations CPS would put the kids into anyway.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by munchkin13

I don't think any mother could live with themselves if they knew they had caused harm to their child through actions, which they could have stopped.

Where's that WRONG gif from Merv week when you need it. There's lots of evidence running around to disprove your statement, miss, you might want to rethink that.

Originally Posted by Capo

I don't smoke, and I really never see myself smoking, but even with that fact I would never want to see smoking banned in public places. The government continually taking away personal rights can't end in anything good.

Someone else's right to smoke shouldn't outweigh my right to be able to breathe. That's what they made outside for, so people can smoke. I'm all for people doing whatever they want to their own bodies, but when it starts infringing on my rights, we're not cool.

There's nowhere I can't reach.