Friday, March 10, 2006

Born in defiance

The book that uterofascists would really, really rather you didn't read:
Mary writes that in 1994 she fell pregnant, and was so sick that she had an ultrasound at 10 weeks to find out what was wrong.

It was only then she learned she was carrying twins. But the second baby was very small.

"This meant the baby was likely to have gross abnormalities because although it's normal for twins to differ in size late in pregnancy and after birth, in early pregnancy they should be exactly the same size to be normal.

"The doctor immediately recommended that I should `terminate that fetus'.

" `You mean kill the baby?' I replied, at which he got a bit upset with me and asked me not to use such language!"

The doctor preferred the term "selective reduction".

Finish the story here. And then see if you can ever stomach the line "It's between a woman and her doctor" again.


A tip of the ol' Akubra to Dawn Eden.

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