Posted 11/26/2007 05:16:00 PM by Douglas

This story has been making the rounds during my Thanksgiving hiatus, but let's just settle one thing first: She's not a person that got sterilized to save the planet: She's an attention whore looking for some ink

Because when Toni terminated her pregnancy, she did so in the firm belief she was helping to save the planet.

Incredibly, so determined was she that the terrible "mistake" of pregnancy should never happen again, that she begged the doctor who performed the abortion to sterilise her at the same time.

He refused, but Toni - who works for an environmental charity - "relentlessly hunted down a doctor who would perform the irreversible surgery.

Finally, eight years ago, Toni got her way.

At the age of 27 this young woman at the height of her reproductive years was sterilised to "protect the planet".

I don't think anyone from the Sierra Club on down will say that it's people's interactions that are destroying the planet, so it doesn't take much to extrapolate from that that less people would make a smaller human impact on the planet. OK, fine. That's total bullshit, but whatever, it got your name in the paper. But wouldn't it follow that if you're less concerned with human life, more specifically, your children's human life, that's you're willing to abort your baby for the sake of the planet, why stop there? Why not kill yourself and hope other follow that lead? It sure would solve a lot of my parking problems.

But here's the line that shows that this attention whore doesn't give a shit about the planet.

We feel we can have one long-haul flight a year, as we are vegan and childless, thereby greatly reducing our carbon footprint and combating over-population.

So that's what a baby's life is worth? One long-haul jet ride? Narrow, unenlightened self-interest doesn't impress me, and idiot got what she deserved. If only her mother had been such a visionary.