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Would you take a pregnancy test online for the entire world to see?
I was talking with a friend just yesterday about how it seems that privacy has gone out the window in today’s digital world. Without even trying, many of us are privy to our friend’s illnesses, events, daily occurrences and often too personal details of one’s life via the many social networks we have become accustomed to. Every day seems to push the envelope in terms of what is accepted and what is not (hint: anything goes these days), but I was still mildly surprised to see the new crop of videos popping up on YouTube. They are a new breed of moms who for one reason or another, take their pregnancy test on video and then post it for the world to see.
OK, I’ve got to say it: if your kid is dying to have sex, he or she is going to. It doesn’t take a breastfeeding doll to make them want it. Or a cheap pregnancy test.
Yes, that’s right, the English version of the American dollar store is selling pregnancy tests and parents are now up in arms that their little precious is going to see it and want to immediately hump anything that moves. Continue reading »
Forget sneaking off to Planned Parenthood or the pharmacy two towns over with your best friend, teens at one upstate New York high school will be able to get their pregnancy tests and STD testing right at their public school.
The board of education in Port Chester, a village not far from Manhattan, approved a plan that will put the pregnancy and STD test into the clinics that serve kids in kindergarten through twelfth grade. Continue reading »
Who needs sonograms and that big needle stuck in your belly? A new at-home pregnancy test won’t tell you whether you’ve got a bun in there but who that bun is.
According the package, the new IntelliGender Gender Prediction Test will tell you at ten weeks if you’ll be bringing home a Susie or a Steve. So why are pro-lifers all up in arms about this one? Continue reading »
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