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Stephanie Fairyington has written a fascinating feature for Elle magazine that centers around a couple named Greg Bruell and Sandra Hedrick. Greg and Sandra are both divorced parents; Greg has two children and Sandra has a daughter – well, make that two daughters. The second, conceived with Greg, is at the heart of an intense debate about the reproductive rights of men.
Lisa Belkin, on her Motherlode blog, deciphers the two key questions asked in Fairyington’s piece. “If a man makes it clear before a child is conceived that he does not want to be a father, and if a woman agrees in advance that she will terminate an accidental pregnancy, should he have to pay child support when she changes her mind?” and “If a couple find themselves unexpectedly expecting, and she wants to terminate but he says he will take full responsibility for the baby after it is born, should he have a legal right to require her to carry to term?”
Over the course of their relationship, Sandra’s been pregnant twice with Greg’s child. She aborted the first pregnancy, even though she didn’t want to, because Greg thought their lives were too unstable. So when Sandra decided in early 2009 that she wanted to keep the second pregnancy, Greg was indignant. She’d ”vowed to Greg that if she conceived again, she’d immediately terminate.” But at 39, she realized “that this might be her last chance to have another child.” Continue reading »
Welcome to a little section we like to call: insanely stupid study results of the week! Because here you were thinking that people who use condoms just didn’t want any more kids (or any at all)?
Wrong! A psychologist at a Scottish university says condom users are ripe for suicide and depression!
All this over a thin sheet of latex? Do tell. Continue reading »
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