How can women equate pregnancy to a long term illness such as prostate cancer? ( see prior question)?
Friday, October 31st, 2008 at
7:55 pm
Ryde on asked:
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Pregnancy to be avoided can, or broken off, around stay and a choice is more pregnant. Â Â Â To distressed areas with a long-term illness is hardly a choice, see parallel I not.
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I know. And what about breast cancer? None of them mentioned it. Kinda funny.
i know that was crazy! i laughed at that example wen i 1st saw it.. i thought… NO connection whatsoever.
Women love to whine about pregnancy, but to me its like whining about your clothes.
Its a CHOICE you made. So what are you crying about exactly?
how can you complain about maternity leave as special treatment when you are entitled, by federal law, to paternity leave?
he who has a clean slate…
uh…someone? it is PATERNITY leave. This means that MEN are entitled to time off from work when their partner/wife/girlfriend has a baby. how much clearer does that really need to be?
Because the foetus is essentially a parasite.
I mean sure, it can be removed… but it is a traumatic thing to do on par sometimes with seeing the damned thing to term.
No one can predict an accident, hence the term “accident.”
No one can predict who is going to get cancer. (oh I know there are telltales, family history and all that, but you never really know who’s going to get it when)
And neither can we predict pregnancy. I’m on the pill. I insist my partners use condoms. There is still a one in one million chance that both could fail.
It equates when you do everything possible to avoid pregnancy and cancer and still wind up getting either. And if someone tells me to not have sex, I’m going to tell them to quit walking around in the sunlight…skin cancer you know.
You failed to notice my point about paternity.
Because we don’t yet have acontraception that is 100% effective. Therefore, if a wom an got pregnant and didn’t know about it until it was too late then she wouldn’t have a choice to abort or tnot – in the Uk they are trying to lower the age of abortion to 3 months. So many women wouldn’t know they would be pregnant and then they would have to have the baby.
The fact is, long term illness would also cause the employer to take extra money – so both would involving sick [pay and temps.
And ryde on, I think it’s quite ignorant to say ‘why do women’ think that when it was only ONE woman, ME who said that. How can you base millions of women on just one point that I made??
Some women think of pregnancy as an illness… They may think it’s not a good thing (some people don’t want to have babies, that’s ok) But it’s usually YOUR fault and you can easily “cure” it.
That sounds like a poor analogy. That’s like saying an ankle sprain is akin to contracting AIDS. I’m sure they both have similarities but they truly are completely different things. Pregnancy is generally the result of two adults choosing to have sex. A long term illness like AIDS is generally not chosen nor are other diseases like cancer. Yes I know that two people can choose to have sex and then contract AIDS but those two people only chose the sex and didn’t choose to contract the disease which was just a random event. Long term illness can last years and even lead to death. Pregnancy, at least in Western countries, generally doesn’t lead to death and I’ve never heard of a case of pregnancy lasting years. Also pregnancy typically has a cut-off point in length. Long-term illness, in general, when left untreated will persist. Long-term illness is often the result of a pathogen. Babies are not generally considered pathogens by the medical community. A woman’s body has evolved to give birth to children. Neither a woman’s nor a man’s body has evolved for the purpose of perpetuating long-term illnesses. There are probably other differences but I’ll stop there.
not everyone is pro-choice.
not eveyone can deal with getting an abortion.
no birth control is 100% effective.
and actually, some long term illnesses CAN be avoided as much as pregnancy, as well. (lifestyle choices)
If you want an answer to your question, you have to explain what you’re babbling about in THIS question.
I’m not going to spend hours going to your profile and trying to figure out what you’re talking about, with my slow dial-up connection.
I’ve never heard anyone, woman or man, equate pregnancy to a long-term illness.
Getting pregnant is NOT always a choice, and, given the lack of available abortions in this country (US), staying pregnant isn’t always a choice either.
But without the context for your question, I don’t get what you’re asking.
No no no ! You should never compare them. I haven’t read the question you are referring to, but they are just not the same. Pregnancy is a time when you feel that you are gifted in some way (of course not in all cases), but no one would feel gifted because they had prostate cancer.