Letter to the editor: A pro-choice/pro-life bird dilemma

I try to dissuade birds from building nests around my house … too many areas to nest and too much bird crap to clean up. Well, one robin probed my defenses and built a nest in a previously unprotected area.

I decided to dump the nest. But I got up high enough to look in and there are two eggs. So I have to decide whether to dump the nest with two eggs in it. I’d feel bad if I did.

But it dawned on me that it’s my house. No old, white men can tell me what to do with stuff under my deck. And it’s two fertilized eggs that are not yet baby birds. Just fertilized eggs. So I can certainly break those eggs and kill the developing robins.

Why not? I’d simply be following the blueprint laid out by NARAL and Planned Parenthood. And I talked to a PETA member and she told me PETA is almost 100% pro-choice.

So I can either let the eggs that are developing into birds alone, or I can kill them. I’m not ready for birds. My bird birth control deterrent didn’t work. I’m too old to have birds. There are already too many birds in the world depleting resources. It’s irresponsible to bring unwanted birds into the world. We can’t take care of the birds we already have.

So if I decide to kill them, I fully expect members of NARAL, Planned Parenthood and PETA to find me and carry me on their shoulders. Because I am a champion for choice!

James Cataldi

Moon