{"id":54503,"date":"2014-08-18T11:59:44","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T18:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=54503"},"modified":"2014-12-28T22:11:15","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T05:11:15","slug":"i-love-simcha-fisher-and-her-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2014\/08\/i-love-simcha-fisher-and-her-readers.html","title":{"rendered":"I Love Simcha Fisher and her Readers"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>So, Simcha is expecting again (yay!).  This will be #10.  And the Fisher folk are tickled pink because, you know, babies!  Yay!  Babies are unequivocal goods.<\/p>\n<p>But of course, blind people can\u2019t see that and lot of so-called pro-choice people aren\u2019t really pro-choice at all.  Some of them have very definite ideas about how many babies a mother should be happy about and really stiffen up when the number is exceeded and start doing what they can to shame mothers (and if they could do by force of law) kill \u201cexcess\u201d babies and punish their parents for FertilityCrime.<\/p>\n<p>One of these showed up on Simcha\u2019s blog with some of the requisite buzzkill, prompting this exchange on her FB wall:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>SIMCHA: Heh, I just got my first passive aggressive pro-choice phony congratulations on being pregnant. If you can\u2019t be happy for someone who is happy about having a baby, then it might be time to rethink, like, everything.<\/p>\n<p>READER: It is at these times Simcha, when we must remember it was once considered a miracle when an ass spoke. Now, not so much.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously, don\u2019t try to snow us with the claim to be \u201cpro-choice\u201d when it\u2019s bleedin\u2019 obvious that you demand only one \u201cchoice\u201d and are openly hostile when a woman does not choose what you tell her to choose.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, Simcha is expecting again (yay!). This will be #10. And the Fisher folk are tickled pink because, you know, babies! Yay! Babies are unequivocal goods. But of course, blind people can\u2019t see that and lot of so-called pro-choice people aren\u2019t really pro-choice at all. 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