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omorkaMy flist is awash in baby-celebration today.
I distrust this for many reasons, not least of which is the constant pressure from my father's family to hurry up and get with the babymaking (fortunately, my parents themselves have cut this the heck out), and the omnipresent social pressure for the same, but also because a lot of this seems to be a sly, half-couched way of making women who have made the choice to terminate a pregnancy to feel guilty about their choice, or to feel that they were manipulated into making it. There also seems to be some anti-birth-control sentiment sneaking about.
Interestingly, none of the individual posts seem to quite state either of the above positions out loud, and it's possible I'm seeing patterns between multiple posts where none of the individual posters intended any of the above. But it's depressing, all the same.
I distrust this for many reasons, not least of which is the constant pressure from my father's family to hurry up and get with the babymaking (fortunately, my parents themselves have cut this the heck out), and the omnipresent social pressure for the same, but also because a lot of this seems to be a sly, half-couched way of making women who have made the choice to terminate a pregnancy to feel guilty about their choice, or to feel that they were manipulated into making it. There also seems to be some anti-birth-control sentiment sneaking about.
Interestingly, none of the individual posts seem to quite state either of the above positions out loud, and it's possible I'm seeing patterns between multiple posts where none of the individual posters intended any of the above. But it's depressing, all the same.
