Thoughts from Stephanie Sexton

This is the strangest news article I have seen all month. It throws me for aloupe.. I have no idea what to think about it. At first I think of people trying to scam the system and getting multiple payouts for not aborting, even if they had no intention of getting an abortion in the first place.. I also think about how some desperate people may even consider getting pregnant in order to get money this way.

I have friends who say they have lived in area where people just had more and more babies in order to qualify for additional monies both from baby daddies and government programs, so I think of that.

The fact that the article mentions a law tha tprohibits the selling of babies brings more questions to mind. I would hope this article may spur some additional discussions about economics. It is truly sad to think that people could be swayed into bringing new babies into the world for surch a small amount of money, and the fact that such a small amount of money may actually get people to consider making babies for adoption is even more sad. When will we all stand up and say enough is enough. Why we spend billions on some things and yet teachers, babysitters and moms have such little opportunity for a lifestyle that gives them the liberty to make choices that are not overruled by finance.

The article from Reuters:

NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas (Reuters) - A Texas legislator has proposed that pregnant women considering abortion be offered $500 not to end their pregnancies.

Republican State Sen. Dan Patrick, who also is a conservative radio talk show host, said on Friday the money might convince the women to go ahead and have babies, then give them up for adoption.

He said during a legislative conference in New Braunfels, 45 miles south of Austin, there were 75,000 abortions in Texas last year.

“If this incentive would give pause and change the mind of 5 percent of those woman, that’s 3,000 lives. That’s almost as many people as we’ve lost in Iraq,” Patrick said.

Patrick has filed legislation to make the payment state law, but the legislature has not yet voted on it.

His proposal calls for giving any woman going to an abortion clinic the $500 option, to be paid no more than 30 days after the baby is born and given up for adoption.

Critics say the proposal would violate Texas and federal laws against buying babies, which Patrick rejected as “the typical ridiculous criticism.”

Heather Paffe, political director of Planned Parenthood of Texas, said Patrick’s proposal “is very cynical and insulting to women and their families.”

“It’s insulting to think women would make that kind of decision so easily,” she said.”

 

Well it seems alot is being launched on the web these days my friends are creating site that sell everything from handguns to diamonds and some of my family members are creating sites selling things from adult sex toys to adult dvds. All these people I know creating websites I decided to create a couple fo my own websites to work on in my spare time while things are slow here. What I decide dto do was create a directory of websites adn then sell ad space on the side, I know it sounds like I wanna be Google but this is just something I want to do at first I am going to dump my favorites list into the direcotry and add my own reviews then I ll ask my friends for thiers and then I ll start taking public subbmissions. I figure I would make a directory of everything on the web instead of just trying to focus on one particular area.I will post what domains I decided to buy and run with in the coming weeks when I find the perfect name for what I plan on doing ofcourse if you know of any for sale please let me know or just have a clever name.

Being a web develper you run into alot of unique individuals overtime weather from conventions of events and many for the most part are focused on one type of industry, which is great because most are employed but a single company but alot of self employed web developers like myself take jobs when we want and based on, alot of times ease of creation. When you have reached a level of the web where working from home at anytime you want the world is much differnt then for those that have to clock in and report to a boss and are assigned work.Just not dealing with rush hour traffic to anf from work is pricless but whenever I take a project on these days I always tell my clients that a web site constantly changes over time and over that time you will want changes and things added nothing is perfect for atleast a year in my mind or from what I have seen over the many jobs I have taken and even then that is when alot of flash and video work come in because everyone wants the prettiness if there is such a word if not I just made one up. But one thing I tell everyone is give a chance for the dial up users and search engine spiders to crawl the home page and put any video or flash on sub pages that way it does not affect there ranking of your web site in the engines and believe it always does. Adding video or flash files always slows the load time of the page and is very complicated in making standards commpliant which is what everyone wants now a days.Anyways just wante dto ramble on a little bit since it is a slow cold day any body with anything cool to say please go rght ahead and let your voice be heard and text be read I guess would be a better saying. Being able to be around my family more makes me so much happpier even if the do drive me crazy every once and awhile.