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Forever Pregnant
Guidelines: Treat Nearly All Women as Pre-Pregnant
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New federal guidelines ask all females capable of conceiving a baby to treat themselves -- and to be treated by the health care system -- as pre-pregnant, regardless of whether they plan to get pregnant anytime soon.
experts say it's important that women follow this advice throughout their reproductive lives, because about half of pregnancies are unplanned and so much damage can be done to a fetus between conception and the time the pregnancy is confirmed
So, are these people just assuming that birth control and abortion are off the menu? Yes, I know accidents can happen when birth control is being used.
But I have a few problems with this:
1) Why should ALL women have to have this forced or guilted upon them just because we might be using our uterus at some point? Some suggestions, like smoking and drinking, are obviously good for your health, but don't try to guilt people into this stuff.
2) The cat feces thing. So, are they in effect saying that single women shouldn't have cats? That teenage girls should not have to clean the kitty litter box? Is some enterprising male going to start a cleaning service specializing in doing litterboxes so women don't have to mess with them? (If someone in the Augusta area is doing #3, let me know....)
3) When are men going to be guilt-tripped...I mean, advised to guard their health so they can be good parents? I know the biological issues aren't as full of impact as they can be for women, but let's have a little equality here.
4) So, how come the same government that is pushing this isn't pushing more affordable, low-cost health care for women, rather than trying to get the fetus covered separately?
Off to go wonder what sort of world we're introducing the MicroVixen to....
DV
Forever Pregnant
Guidelines: Treat Nearly All Women as Pre-Pregnant
( Read more... )
New federal guidelines ask all females capable of conceiving a baby to treat themselves -- and to be treated by the health care system -- as pre-pregnant, regardless of whether they plan to get pregnant anytime soon.
experts say it's important that women follow this advice throughout their reproductive lives, because about half of pregnancies are unplanned and so much damage can be done to a fetus between conception and the time the pregnancy is confirmed
So, are these people just assuming that birth control and abortion are off the menu? Yes, I know accidents can happen when birth control is being used.
But I have a few problems with this:
1) Why should ALL women have to have this forced or guilted upon them just because we might be using our uterus at some point? Some suggestions, like smoking and drinking, are obviously good for your health, but don't try to guilt people into this stuff.
2) The cat feces thing. So, are they in effect saying that single women shouldn't have cats? That teenage girls should not have to clean the kitty litter box? Is some enterprising male going to start a cleaning service specializing in doing litterboxes so women don't have to mess with them? (If someone in the Augusta area is doing #3, let me know....)
3) When are men going to be guilt-tripped...I mean, advised to guard their health so they can be good parents? I know the biological issues aren't as full of impact as they can be for women, but let's have a little equality here.
4) So, how come the same government that is pushing this isn't pushing more affordable, low-cost health care for women, rather than trying to get the fetus covered separately?
Off to go wonder what sort of world we're introducing the MicroVixen to....
DV
