Friday, April 07, 2006

A loving environment?

My roommate and I were in the grocery store earlier this week when she saw a tabloid magazine from atleast 10 feet away and exclaimed "Is Katie Holmes really going to have a silent birth?!" Not having the slightest clue what she was talking about, I looked it up. Hrm, go figure, the First National Church of L. Ron Hubbard has another wacky doctrine;

The "TomKat" baby may be the most hotly anticipated celebrity birth of the season, but it is expected to be delivered in line with the little understood Scientology method of quiet or silent birth.
Cruise, 43, is one of the best known adherents of the Church of Scientology founded by L Ron Hubbard, who believed that the best possible start in life for a new baby is a calm and loving environment free of screaming obscenities, chatty doctors or shouts to "push".


How about an environment of two loving parents who are actually married, huh Tom? I mean do we have more serious things in a newborn "environment" to worry about than the presence of suffering? I'm gonna go with yes. Whats so bad about a child coming into the world knowing about suffering? We spend far too much time avoiding necessary and BEAUTIFUL suffering like childbirth anyway, in my opinion.

Why don't we put the screaming aside for a minute and start worrying about the babies who come into the world in a petri dish?

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