Pre-Pregnancy Program (WisCon 31 panel)
Politics, Race, Class, and Religion•Assembly• Sunday, 2:30-3:45 p.m.
According to recent CDC guidelines, all American women are to be considered "pre-pregnant" throughout their potential childbearing years. Women from menarche to menopause are to be officially considered wombs first and people second, apparently, with a list of behavioural modifications aimed at ensuring a "healthy pregnancy" mandated for all women the Government can get their hands on—even those who don't intend to become pregnant. How do we treat dictums like "you should all start taking folic acid 3 months before any potential pregnancy" or the injunction against alcohol—apparently any and all alcohol, since they make no distinction between certified alcoholics and a woman enjoying a glass of wine after dinner? How do we take back what is being eroded little by little—our own self worth as the female half of the human race?
M: Hanne I Blank, Alma Alexander, Janet Lafler, Lori Selke