Monday Teeny Poll
Last week I asked if it was more difficult to name girls or boys, and fifty-three percent of you voted “both are equally hard!”
Well, having already named a boy and being faced with naming a girl, I’m going to disagree and say that girls are easier. There are just simply more girl names to choose from. There aren’t a whole lot of boy names, for some reaon, but there are pages and pages of girl ones.
As for today, the mommyblogosphere is scandalized by the acts of one Beccah Beushausen. She posed on the internet as the unmarried mother of an unborn baby with a terminal illness, and who was also promoting her anti-abortion views. She was getting upwards of 100,000 hits a week, and was showered with attention, gifts, and support.
The thing was, Beccah wasn’t pregnant with a terminally ill child. She wasn’t even pregnant at all. It turned out to be a big lie, even though she claims that the experience happened to her in 2005. How was she discovered? She used a picture of a re-born doll, saying that it was her daughter. Except, someone had that exact doll at home! D’oh!
So, that makes me curious…
Not only that, but didn’t she claim to have the baby at home? Which is just what someone with a sick baby would do? Even if you don’t want to abort your terminally ill child, don’t you want her to have as much comfort and as little pain (ie, drugs) as possible once she is born and for her brief life?
That’s what would have made me suspicious too — there are many women who choose to carry to term even when they know that the child will not live long outside of the womb. But no doctor, midwife, or doula worth her salt would have been supportive of a home birth under those circumstances.
This is nothing, really. I’ve seen some stuff online that would curl your hair and SHOULD have sent people to prison for a dozen years for fraud at the very least. Scams of this nature are almost a tradition by this point.
It does make it difficult, as I’ve got a friend who is legitimately sick and there’s skepticism and stock “I never give online, they’re all scams or I can’t be bothered to figure out which aren’t” responses when I suggest donations. I do hope this kid will be tried for fraud, of which she clearly appears to be guilty, and may in fact be sued for inducing emotional distress in the people who listened to her fantasy of woe.