Birth / pregnancy articles
A slew of pregnancy articles I've noticed lately:
Also, not quite sure how this happened, but eclampsia beat out blahojevich on Google trends yesterday. And then parthenogenesis and virgin birth came in at #3 and #5....what's going on?
Google Hot Trends Dec 9:
1. eclampsia
2. blagojevich
3. parthenogenesis
4. rod blagojevich
5. virgin birth
**UPDATE 1**
From the Business of Being Born website:
Ricki Lake and producer Abby Epstein visited Anna May Gaskin on "The Farm":
http://www.thebusinessofbeingborn.com/blog/2008/12/09/down-on-the-farm/
- NYT Magazine: Her Body, My Baby
- WSJ op-ed reponse: Rent-a-Womb Is Where Market Logic Leads
- NYT Motherlode blog: 70-Year-Old Woman Gives Birth
Also, not quite sure how this happened, but eclampsia beat out blahojevich on Google trends yesterday. And then parthenogenesis and virgin birth came in at #3 and #5....what's going on?
Google Hot Trends Dec 9:
1. eclampsia
2. blagojevich
3. parthenogenesis
4. rod blagojevich
5. virgin birth
**UPDATE 1**
From the Business of Being Born website:
Ricki Lake and producer Abby Epstein visited Anna May Gaskin on "The Farm":
http://www.thebusinessofbeingborn.com/blog/2008/12/09/down-on-the-farm/
posted by mrdarius at
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
3 Comments:
Re: the WSJ op-ed, I think the article was a little too generalised in that one insufferable cow deliberately writing in such an outrageous manner to get a reaction is hardly likely to be the standard of rich women
If surrogacy ever becomes a widely practiced market transaction, it will probably make pregnancy into just another dirty task for the working class
I think that's going a little too far and sounds a little too Marxist for my liking in the sense that the human factor is far too distant from the crux of the argument: women actually wanting to experience carrying a child, a largely instinctual desire many women, rich and poor, have wanted to fulfil since time immemorial.
But anyway, if that woman really is anything like she represents herself I really feel sorry for the kid.
i agree with you about the tone of the article.
one reason, i guess, that you see these types of articles is to get a rise out of people. that's the point of most media (except the economist, usually).
anyway, the reason 3rd world surrogacy gets a rise out of people is because most people immediately have the horrifying image of baby factories (literally), which, for what it's worth actually exist.
this author's predictions are rather classist, and i agree that the real scary part is the implication that perfectly capable women might opt to "outsource" their births because they're "too posh to push." i think a lot of women see birth as a "dirty" task today, and i hope there will be a movement of women understanding their bodies with respect to birth.
for the sake of the midwife economy!
ps -- i learned that eclampsia was the top term because it was mentioned on that show House.
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