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Chrissie Swan: public intervention : Comments

By Karen Pickering, published 13/2/2013

Nicotine is one of the hardest drugs to kick, so shouldn't we be supportive and empathetic towards someone struggling to do just that?

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Isn't it a strange world? It is taboo to smoke or drink when pregnant but perfectly OK to abort the child because that is a woman asserting her right to control her own body.
Posted by Sparkyq, Wednesday, 13 February 2013 9:41:39 AM
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Oh, the irony.

"... I immediately braced myself for the inevitable orgy of public outrage. It came."

To be closely followed by acres of print, blogs, Tweets etc. either i) decrying the acres of print, blogs, Tweets etc. devoted to said outrage, or ii) becoming their very own orgy of public outrage on the (largely imagined) wider implications of the first outrage.

Haven't we got better things to do, people, than confect outrage at every tiny trip, fumble or stumble that can be attributed to - let's be brutally honest here - a relatively insignificant "public figure".

Ms Swan is a feature journalist, not the Messiah.

Leave her alone, for heaven's sake. All of you.

You too, Ms Pickering.

Let's face it, your act - to piggy-back off Ms Swan's misfortune in such a patronizing manner is just as reprehensible as any of those holier-than-thous. I would also be interested to know, as I suspect would many others, the name of the restaurant you use in your "example" of repression.

If only to hear their side of the story.
Posted by Pericles, Wednesday, 13 February 2013 10:04:22 AM
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...Chrissie Swan proves again the old adage..."Once a scrubber, always a scrubber"!
Posted by diver dan, Wednesday, 13 February 2013 10:37:35 AM
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"The difference is that she's pregnant and pregnant women's bodies don't belong to them. "

Unless you plan on becoming 'unpregnant' in which case those same people upset about her smoking would be vocally defending her right to do as she wishes with her body.

Get in a car and have a smoke....oh what a swine.

Get in a car and drive to a place where they stick a needle into the baby's head, suck out the brain and then dismember the body prior to flushing it all...nobody's business but the mother's. Except that you'll need to tell the government so they can subsidise the whole event.

Society's moral compass has gone all shew-whiff.
Posted by mhaze, Wednesday, 13 February 2013 12:03:37 PM
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I liked the article and am in full agreement with it until the end where the author states "It's about finding new and more justifiable ways of controlling women."
The constant cries of outrage we read in the press about peoples behaviour are not restricted to women. Looked at the issue about Tim Matheison making a joke the other week. He isn't a woman. It s all about government and society and groups such as the AMA and other health advocacy groups trying to control what we do, eat, drink, smoke, think and say. The goal seems to be to turn us all into politically correct, healthy clones.
Posted by Rhys Jones, Wednesday, 13 February 2013 1:00:43 PM
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I'm going to leave all the medical/abortion/pro choice topics alone and comment on something else.

How it this any of our business? The privacy laws are a joke. How is it reasonable that you can publish a photo of a person without their permission? The only motive for doing so was money - not concern for the unborn child.

I strongly believe that a person's photo should not be published without their express permission, regardless of who they are.
Posted by rational-debate, Wednesday, 13 February 2013 1:46:00 PM
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