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...was outraged by Michelle Cottle's article, in which she confessed she wasn't much of an environmentalist until now, when she is pregnant [April 18]. What selfishness! Is it all right then to destroy the environment as long as it affects only those who are out of the womb? Preserving the environment has to be humankind's top priority at all times. Conserving what we have requires a careful balancing of benefits and costs, plus modulated change. With allies like Cottle, who needs enemies...
...Getting pregnant without infecting a partner is the first obstacle for those women. Some, like Kelli Hughes, use artificial insemination, while others opt to have unprotected sex when their viral load--or measure of the virus in their bloodstream--is low. During the first trimester of pregnancy, the women take a break from any antiretroviral drugs they may have been taking so that the fetus is not exposed during this critical developmental window. But drug treatment is resumed or begun in the second trimester and continued through the end of the pregnancy. At the time of delivery...
...There are definitely biases. One study I read tested people's response to pictures of a woman doing the same sort of work with or without a prosthesis to make it seem as if she were pregnant. The "pregnant" woman was judged less competent and worthy of a raise. Of course nonparents can also be resentful of the times parents need to be absent from work due to their children, although I was unable to find any research showing that parents take more net time than others...
...really believe it starts with looking at the world and themselves differently. In one study, researchers found that pregnant women overwhelmingly felt they were weaker in mental strengths, such as focus and memory, whereas tests showed they weren't. The researchers speculated that this might be because of what they had internalized about others' expectations. One legacy of feminism has been this uncomfortableness about women rearing children and getting close to children. We've come to see our children taking things away from us, and we've lost the sense of how much they're adding to us, as people...
...YOUNG, PREGNANT AND CANCER FREE...