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Wednesday, May 17, 2006

I Don't Think So!

Just read a great piece over on Riba Rambles . And by great piece I mean something that made my face red and forced my eyes to go bloodshot and pop out of my head. Because this is the kind of thing that makes me wonder if we're not living in some scary Orwellian universe. Which, of course, you already know we are if you read the news. "The US Government" has become one of the scariest entities on the planet, people. Keep your eyes open before they crush you under their fists and steal your lunch money.

Okay, so Riba alerts us all to a new initiative to label all pre-menopausal woman as "pre-pregnant," meaning that at any moment they could become pregnant and thus they will exert some sort of control over our bodies to keep the old female reproductive organs ready for planting.

She tells how her doctor won't put her on any medication that may have bad effects on a fetus, even though she has no plans to get pregnant. Here's the scary summary: "My neurologist does not trust me to not get pregnant. My neurologist puts a potential fetus's potential health over my health."

Ladies, you know if men got pregnant this wouldn't even be a consideration. Do you really want the government to step in and tell you you can't get certain medical treatments because you are pre-pregnant? HELL NO!

She's got more excellent points on how stupid this all is, that they are focusing on the WRONG things, all in an attempt to get themselves out of the cellar on that list of countries with poor newborn survival rates. Maybe if they worked to get everyone some level of health care it would solve the problem. I'll just let you go read it and get angry on your own.

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