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[novapsyche]

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.

lady_babalon had something to say about this, as did sophiaserpentia and some other folks, like in these posts in feminist.

Comments

[xterminal.livejournal.com]

Welcome back to the days of "you're not a woman, you're a breeding machine."

I so need to move somewhere else.

Playing Devil's Advocate...

[demeter42.livejournal.com]

If there is one thing I know about doctors, it is that they tend to be the sort of people who, when they see people physically suffering, feel the need to *do* something.

I agree that the implications of such a policy are demeaning... but I have to give them the benefit of the doubt on this one.

I don't think the doctors who came up with this policy were intentionally trying to characterize all women as baby machines... I think this was simply a poorly thought out - but innocent - attempt to reduce birth defects.

grrr

[magicmaiden.livejournal.com]

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr reading the posts today backwards..most recent to whenever it was I left off the other day....grrrrrr.

Are they asking the potential dads to do the same...their health matters too.

Way grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr and not a good grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr either.