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dreamer_easyAustralian comes fifth in a list of the most promiscuous developed nations.
Test all for Down, urge doctors. It's heartbreaking imagining trying to decide whether to continue with a pregnancy, knowing that your child will have Down syndrome, especially if you lack the resources to give that child the additional care s/he will need. But as always, the issue is not about whether it's right to abort, but who gets to choose while others have no choice: the reason doctors are calling for universal testing is not that they don't value Down babies, but because many Australian mothers can't afford the test or don't have access to it.
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outsdr: Why I am an abortion doctor. Beware gruesome medical details.
Are We Not Men? An Atlantic article favourably comparing 60s-70s Playboy to current "lad" magazines, which makes the following useful observation: "...the lads have preferred to think that they represent a male backlash, a testosterone-soaked atavism, a rude if somewhat ironic return to the pre–James Taylor days. But their fear of women is nothing but a rueful extension of Mr. New Age’s obsequiousness, their pantomime of sexism nothing but utter compliance with the harshest feminist critique—nothing but a dancing-bear routine in the feminist tent show." Top Gear (the gender implications of which I find endlessly fascinating) is of course a more female-friendly version of the same phenomenon. Oo-er, we are such naughty boys. Bless.
Test all for Down, urge doctors. It's heartbreaking imagining trying to decide whether to continue with a pregnancy, knowing that your child will have Down syndrome, especially if you lack the resources to give that child the additional care s/he will need. But as always, the issue is not about whether it's right to abort, but who gets to choose while others have no choice: the reason doctors are calling for universal testing is not that they don't value Down babies, but because many Australian mothers can't afford the test or don't have access to it.
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outsdr: Why I am an abortion doctor. Beware gruesome medical details.Are We Not Men? An Atlantic article favourably comparing 60s-70s Playboy to current "lad" magazines, which makes the following useful observation: "...the lads have preferred to think that they represent a male backlash, a testosterone-soaked atavism, a rude if somewhat ironic return to the pre–James Taylor days. But their fear of women is nothing but a rueful extension of Mr. New Age’s obsequiousness, their pantomime of sexism nothing but utter compliance with the harshest feminist critique—nothing but a dancing-bear routine in the feminist tent show." Top Gear (the gender implications of which I find endlessly fascinating) is of course a more female-friendly version of the same phenomenon. Oo-er, we are such naughty boys. Bless.
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Date: 2008-12-08 12:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-08 12:52 am (UTC)Prolapsed colon? Pfft.