Julie Deardorph at the Chicago Tribune reports on a mother in Nevada, Anne Swanson, who threw a boo-hoo fit after giving birth because her hospital wouldn’t allow her to eat her placenta.

Deardorph is feelin’ Swanson’s pain — although she claims she wouldn’t do it, she thinks mothers ought to be able to eat their own organs:

Mother goats do it. Rats do it.

Yeah, and dogs eat their own shit too. Other animals also eat each other. What’s your point?

(It’s always The Man trying to prevent woman from eating their own organs! Damn them!!)

But I do think if you want your placenta, for whatever reason, you should be able to have it. There are no laws barring hospitals from providing placentas to patients and if she doesn’t have HIV or hepatitis, what’s the risk? Meanwhile, we let people put more troubling things in their mouths every day, including cigarettes and hot dogs.

So let’s understand the logic — Deardorph demands rights for people to eat their own organs based on the fact that people eat hot dogs?

Perhaps Ms. Placenta Rights is not in the know…there is a reason why hospitals have hazardous waste systems in which blood, organs and other bodily fluids are thrown out in regulated form, with regulated procedure. It’s a public health issue. You cannot allow people to just take home the organs of their choice, to cuddle with it at night or to feed it to their families. Disease can spread rapidly. Organs are contaminated and when not transported correctly, can potentially be a threat as bacteria grows.

Apparently, Hawaii does have a law that releases placentas to mothers for religious reasons, although perhaps it is still illegal to release it for purposes of ingesting it (how they would determine the end purpose, who knows). All I can say is thankfully Hawaii is separated from the mainland by a vast amount of ocean.

re: IT’S NOT JUNE YET

Dear Mom,

I noticed that you changed the calendar in the kitchen to June already, even though it is still May. May 30, to be exact. Did you hear me? IT’S STILL MAY. Not June. May. What’s after May? June. Then July. August. September.

October. November. December. January. February. March. April. Then May — just like now.

Fortunately, Dad helped me fix it. Once it was back to its rightful month — DID I MENTION THAT WOULD BE MAY? — I stepped back, looked with great pleasure and said, “There. It is fixed. It’s May now.”

Please don’t do that again.

Love,
Graham

Again. Again and again. I can hardly stand to hear another one of these stories.

Yet, another Texas mother, identified as Gilberta Estrada, brutally kills her children in a trailer home by hanging them. The twist in this case, is that she succeeded with all but the infant, who was struggling in her noose and rescued when the aunt found the family hanged. Unfortunately, the 5, 4 and 2 year old were already dead, as was the mother.

The most disgusting fact of the article that reported this horrific and tragic incidence, was the fact that this is a frequent pattern in Texas and that a portion of our society calously chooses to give these “mothers” amnesty over giving these children justice or putting abused children first:

Houston Chronicle/AP TX news: The slayings came nearly five years after another woman in Hudson Oaks killed her three children. On July 16, 2002, Dee Etta Perez, 39, shot her 4-year-old daughter and sons, ages 9 and 10, before killing herself.

Texas has seen a disturbing number of child killings by mothers in recent years.

Andrea Yates drowned her five children in the family’s Houston bathtub in 2001. In 2003, Deanna Laney beat her two young sons to death with stones in East Texas, and Lisa Ann Diaz drowned her daughters in a Plano bathtub. Dena Schlosser fatally severed her 10-month-old daughter’s arms with a kitchen knife in 2004.

All four of those women were found innocent by reason of insanity. Yates initially was convicted of capital murder, but that was overturned on appeal.

It is so uncivilized and selfish that there are adults that think that preserving the rights of adults to make the decision of whether or not their children are worthy of life, supersedes their moral obligation to protect children from heinous killers. Furthermore, it is a sad statement of the world in which we live in, that adults in our society see children as objects and of little value, especially when compared to adults. (Ah, they were just babies after all, it’s not like they were adults.)

It’s no wonder why moms keep torturing and killing their kids. Other people keep making excuses for them in order to protect their own selfish agenda - to preserve exclusive rights of adults and make children nearly invisible and worthless. Imagine if we put children first? Adults would be held accountable for them, wouldn’t they?

There is no reason for these “mothers” to second guess themselves. They are constantly being told by society that if they brutally kill their children, it’s not their fault - they’re still good people and that society really doesn’t care. It’s not as if it’s a man who raped a woman or student who shot his peers at a school, c’mon, they were just having a bad day!

The only silver lining is that the mother actually took her own life as well. At least we will have one less murdering, child abusing political pawn to ante up money for some spa-like “therapy” in which child killing advocacy groups can reward her with.

The children however, deserved better.

From the Associated Press:

Ottawa, IL — Keith Irelan and his three children went through a McDonald’s drive-thru Monday night to order Happy Meals. They were on their way to meet their mother at a nearby school for a picnic, police said.

But one of the children — an 8-year-old girl — got a lighter, pipe, and bag of marijuana in her Happy Meal, according to Ottawa Police Chief Brian Zeilmann. Her father went to the police.

In other news, Burger King will begin its “Crack Whore Value Meal” promotion next week.

It seems a bunch of Imperfect Parent writers are popping up all over these new fangled things called “podcasts” in the next couple of days.

First, Kristen Chase, our very own Mominatrix, hosts her Motherhood Uncensored radio show tonight, May 16, from 9-10 p.m. EST. Her topic is religion. including the subject I’m mainly interested in — raising kids without it. She’ll be joined by our favorite political pundit and atheist Julie Marsh, as well as author Dale McGowan and Noell Hyman. If the damn kids will keep their pie holes shut during that time, perhaps I’ll call in. Fortunately an MP3 of the show is also archived if you can’t listen during the live broadcast time.

Next up on the podcast plate, have you heard about True Mom Confessions? Of course you have, it’s been all over the place (seriously, how do we get that kind of publicity?). But in case you’ve been vacationing off the face of the Earth, TMC is a new website created by Rebecca Woolf and Romi Lassally that allows moms to bare their souls through an anonymous post. Apparently you all have a lot of dirty little secrets, because it’s taking off like crazy.

Now the pair has already spun off the site into True Mom Confessions Radio, a live internet call-in show, and this Thursday, May 17 from 5-6 p.m. EST Mominatrix shows up on the airwaves again as a guest along with our newest and totally faboo columnist, Rachael (aka Crankmama). They’ll be discussing sex and sexuality after motherhood. This show is also archived, if you’re unable to listen to Kristen and Rachael’s potty mouths in the middle of the afternoon.

This is a very entertaining bunch, so if you have yet to get into listening to podcasts, this would be a great time to start.

Do I win the award for the most links in a blog post? Sheesh.