Things I Learned this Week
By AmyMo on Mar 10, 2006 in Life
Apparently, Clorox Disinfecting Wipes are not intended to be used on your baby. Otherwise, they’re a brilliant product.
I have to assume that when warnings like that are applied to commercial products, there must have been a precipitating cause. This likely means that someone, somewhere, thought it made sense to wipe their child’s behind with something called CLOROX! Sadly, that realization diminishes the humor to be found here.
I realize that for all intents and purposes, the product does resemble a baby wipe. But really. What rock do you have to be living under in the United States to not know that Clorox is bad for skin? Gah!
Also:
There is a guy suing a woman to get out of having to pay child support on behalf of an unwanted child created by the pair when they were dating. He wanted to abort or place the child for adoption, she didn’t. He wants to opt out of having to deal with the ramifications of his actions and her decisions. It’s an interesting conversation.
Unfortunately, it is quite likely being used as ammunition by those who hope to overturn Roe v. Wade, assuring that instead of generating honest dialog about the meat of the matter (the continued evolution of the definitions of marriage, family, parenting and personal responsibility); it will devolve into yet another heated, religiously-charged contest about a woman’s right to choose.
How’s that for random?
Also, also:
I have GOT to get one of these.
“Apparently, Clorox Disinfecting Wipes are not intended to be used on your baby.”
Damn. There goes my plan.
On the “Male Roe v. Wade” thing, I think I might actually be OK with that. I mean, they both have responsibility for taking precautions. If that fails, there is a decision to be made, but only the woman, legally, can make that decision, even though it has lifelong implications for both. How is that fair?
On the other hand, anything that removes the availability of child support to kids who may need it very much could be a very bad thing. It’s not exactly their fault the guy doesn’t want to be a dad, and they still need luxeries like food, clothes, etc.
Ideally, nobody should have sex without discussing in advance what they’d do in the event of an unwanted pregnancy. Yeah, ’cause that’ll happen.
Christina | Mar 11, 2006 | Reply
Which is exactly what makes this an interesting conversation. But it’s a very difficult conversation to have at a national level when there is still so much contentious, moralistic fire around the issue of abortion.
AmyMo | Mar 11, 2006 | Reply
slanket, I think I like slanket
Mom | Mar 11, 2006 | Reply
You know what happened, though. The Clorox thing has “baby changing table” listed as one of its uses, so someone (overestimating the intelligence of others in the household) left the container on the changing table, and the next genius to change the baby just reached for the nearest baby-wipes-esque container.
This is what happens when people get conditioned to believe that you can and should kill all bacteria on every possible surface all the time.
Elizabeth F. | Mar 12, 2006 | Reply
Don’t believe a word of what “they” tell you. Clorox wipes work just fine for wiping a baby. How else can a parent achieve that just-sanitized baby smell?
Just kidding.
(not)
Geoffrey | Mar 14, 2006 | Reply
I’m probably the biggest supporter for the right to choose. I’m also a big supporter of never fully trusting someone who says they can’t get pregnant when you want to sleep together and only dating so you should ALWAYS use protection movement. I can see both sides. He doesn’t want to be a parent, but he should know that having sex could lead to babies and worse, STD’s. I can also see her point, he should help her with supporting this baby because he’s the father.
If they’re going to toss some religion into the mix saying abortion is murder and against God’s will, well isn’t having sex before marriage against God’s will also?
It’s a very unfortunate situation for all people involved, and the one who will suffer the most is the kid because both of her parents are idiots.
It just ticks me off because I will support abortion rights until I die, I feel it is very important to have that right, and any right to do what you want with your body, but some of these religious freaks are making Christians like me and Jeff look really bad.
Loren | Mar 19, 2006 | Reply