http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/12/03/re-the-princess-is-pregnant Comments On: Re: The Princess Is Pregnant by Cienna Madrid en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sun, 19 May 2013 16:30:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
I feel as though you must have missed something. I never claimed that pregnant women do not deserve insured care. I never said that newborns do not deserve insured care. I said that legally forcing carriers and members to pay for ART treatments is wrong because it is not even close to a medical necessity. It is a luxury. Which is why Doctors Without Borders do not go to war-torn countries to do artificial insemination.

Also, look up what "Male Privilege" is. It actually means something specific, it is not just a buzzword to throw into situations which you perceive are unfair. Because guess what? While many health insurance plans cover AI/IVF, basically none cover male fertility treatments. I have been working in the health care industry for many years now, I have seen it firsthand.

Therefore, your claim of "male privilege" could not be farther from the truth.


Posted by Theodore Gorath]]> Wed, 05 Dec 2012 07:29:12 -0800 The Stranger Posted by thecheesegirl]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 15:04:38 -0800 The Stranger plenty, but I still had such bad morning sickness that I lost 15 pounds in the first trimester of my pregnancy and continued to feel intermittent nausea until the day the kid was born.
Additionally, some scientific evidence suggests that high hCG levels correlate to morning sickness, in which case a woman being treated for HG, as Kate is, is unlikely to miscarry.
Posted by thecheesegirl]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 14:56:49 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Whoop Di Doo]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 12:50:00 -0800 The Stranger
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I must introduce you to my in-laws. All of them. Both my MIL's and FIL's family. Hubby and I were married quite young, but we had a LOT of things to take care of before we were set up and ready for kids. And then ran into reproductive issues which had nothing to do with my age.

I was harassed with some form of "when are you going to have a baby?" in every. single. conversation. with an in-law for over twelve years. I'm not exaggerating; after a few years I started keeping notes. Every phone call, every dinner, every holiday. EVERY. Hubby got the same thing if I didn't come to the phone. Eventually I lost my temper and screamed at one of them, and that was apparently the signal to back off, because I was "so touchy about it." Fuck off, you insensitive shits, after twelve years I'd be touchy about being asked my hair color!

So yeah, I really feel for Kate.
Posted by Action Kate]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 11:05:47 -0800 The Stranger Posted by kersy]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 09:19:57 -0800 The Stranger Posted by suddenlyorcas]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 08:53:20 -0800 The Stranger Posted by suddenlyorcas]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 08:52:35 -0800 The Stranger Posted by onion]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 07:59:11 -0800 The Stranger
@17: "the point is they should have a choice. Babies first, then career; or babies and career at the same time; or career first then babies." Or, a career and no babies at all. No babies is also a perfectly valid option.

Not for Will and Kate, however. Although it certainly would have been a cruel twist if the royal reproductive organs had turned out to be infertile.
Posted by sun runner]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 06:31:33 -0800 The Stranger You are clearly someone without ability to add to a conversation in any meaningful way.

Do try to pay attention and keep up.


Posted by Theodore Gorath]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 05:11:04 -0800 The Stranger Posted by kersy]]> Mon, 03 Dec 2012 21:12:17 -0800 The Stranger
It worked when I said it to my parents, grandparents, and in-laws.
Posted by carriemcc]]> Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:52:33 -0800 The Stranger Posted by JenV]]> Mon, 03 Dec 2012 18:38:53 -0800 The Stranger Posted by ams_]]> Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:59:49 -0800 The Stranger
The answer Is to make the workplace and society in general more hospitable for women with children. If the "when are you going to pop one out" (much like the "no abortions for anybody") crowd actually cared they would work toward that.


Posted by ams_]]> Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:57:15 -0800 The Stranger Posted by STJA]]> Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:09:38 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Beetlecat]]> Mon, 03 Dec 2012 16:53:56 -0800 The Stranger
For example, if you want to retire some day, have a happy couple of decades, and then die in your 80s with a warm, safe house, with electricity, a sweet internet connection, access to good food, etc... it is absolutely necessary to you personally that children continue to be born to keep our society running. Producing food, providing emergency and medical services, keeping the infrastructure in working order - all of these things are going to be important to your elderly ass, and none of those things will be able to continue if people don't keep popping out babies. So spare us your smug "babies aren't a medical necessity" garbage.
Posted by JenV]]> Mon, 03 Dec 2012 16:08:16 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Pick1]]> Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:06:50 -0800 The Stranger
I'd say so but at least you are aware of the problem.
Posted by anon1256]]> Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:08:54 -0800 The Stranger "Congratulations! Now you can settle down and have a baby!"

For reelz? Man, that sounds like a woman who went through Ellis Island. I thought non-Mormon parents and grandparents who encouraged their offspring to breed had just about died out. Hard to imagine any woman who went through the feminist movement of the 70s saying to her daughter or granddaughter, "Hey, start blowing 'em out!"

Hey...I take that back. I was unfortunate enough to have to sit through a Married to Jonas episode a few weeks ago where fairly young Mama Jonas was going ape shit on her son (who'd been married less than six months) for not producing an 8-pounder by now. I would have told that woman (mother or not) to tend to her own life and issues - that starting a family (or not) is entirely a decision between the husband and wife. So, butt the fuck out.

Justified because in that instance it should be noted that she was living off her kids - not the other way around.
Posted by Bauhaus I]]> Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:06:54 -0800 The Stranger
Can't find a single study that says this is true. Show me one.

Also, Kate is 30, not 20. She's a pretty good age to have children and guess what? Just as any woman gets to decide when to have kids, so does Kate. Who waited, dated, married and is having kids.

Also, the correct answer to anyone asking, "When are you having kids?" is...when I'm ready.


Posted by westello]]> Mon, 03 Dec 2012 13:59:01 -0800 The Stranger
For those under 50, *plonk* is how internet users of a, uh, certain age, plug their ears and say "la la la la la".

It's easy to see why this makes some women really, really angry. Not that anger can change facts.
Posted by Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn]]> Mon, 03 Dec 2012 13:54:47 -0800 The Stranger
*plonk*
Posted by Catherwood]]> Mon, 03 Dec 2012 13:37:41 -0800 The Stranger