These sensationalist Dec. 19 headlines won't create any new natalists.
From the Washington Post (via Oxblog): "Many New or Expectant Mothers Die Violent Deaths."
From the front page of the New York Times: "After Baby's Grim Diagnosis, Parents Try Drastic Treatment." (With accompanying photo of infant who, as a side effect of said "drastic treatment," has extremely thick eyebrows and a hairy face.)
From CNN: "Churchgoers mourn pregnant woman: Communities struggle with shocking death, theft of baby."
So basically, if you decide to become pregnant, you risk: a) violent death at the hand of the baby's father, b) giving birth to a child who seems normal at first but soon develops a rare but deadly metabolic disorder, and c) being killed by a woman who wishes to steal your fetus. All creepy enough to make a person think twice about having even one child.
Sunday, December 19, 2004
Scare tactics
Posted by Phoebe Maltz Bovy at Sunday, December 19, 2004
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. . . a metabolic disorder that turns out to be contagious.
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