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womb raiders
Research Suggests Women May Produce Eggs As Adults
Scientists have found evidence that adult women have stem cells in their ovaries that let them generate more eggs, challenging the long-standing belief that women are born with a fixed number of ova. More »
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By MargaretComment by cellardoor: Veering off the subject matter and on to the science-ish: Whenever I read articles like this, I believe more and... 2 Responses | Other threads
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womb raiders
Whose Choice? What To Do When You're Expecting Someone Else's Kid
For most people, it is pretty obvious what you would do if your employer just stopped paying you. But what happens when your job involves renting out your womb? More »
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By Intern KatyComment by opalmarie: Situations like this is why I think the whole baby creation market (IVF, surrogacy, fertility drugs, etc) is so icky.... 22 Responses | Other threads
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leftovers
Hero & (Onetime) Baby Reunited After 4 Decades • Olympic Sports May Soon Be Open To Both Genders
• More than 40 years after William Carroll saved Evangeline Harper from a burning building, the two were reunited for a touching article in the Boston Globe. • More »
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By Intern KatyComment by gerbilsoutofexile...is cheap and easy: I just had to leave and clean up my 50-pound puppy's vomit. Tell me, is cat vomit any less vile... 19 Responses | Other threads
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leftovers
Drew Peterson's Ex-"Fiance" Speaks Out • Octopulets Mom Gets Herself An Agent
• Drew Peterson's most recent ex claims that they were never engaged. Christina Raines, who first met Peterson when she was 15, says that the whole engagement was a "stunt." • More »
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By Intern KatyComment by saintbernadette: I have always been so scared of developing enormous vertical earring holes, and so always stick to very small or... 14 Responses | Other threads
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womb raiders
New Facts About Mother Of Octuplets Raise Ethical Questions
Though doctors speculated that the California mother of octuplets had used fertility drugs to conceive, it's now being reported that she had the embryos implanted...and was already the mother of six children. More »
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By MargaretComment by MJ: What confuses me is that this is a single mom, with six kids. Why is a doctor agreeing to... 59 Responses | Other threads
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womb raiders
Advertisers & "Advisers" Focus On Fertile Territory
Two new ad campaigns aim to educate younger women about infertility: although one gives women the facts on fertility and the other makes false claims, both, one could argue, use fear as a major motivation. More »
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By MargaretComment by stacyinbean: Is it at all possible that we could start having events for ladies that don't center around martinis and manicures?... 18 Responses | Other threads
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womb raiders
American Egg Donors Report Negative Post-Procedure Feelings
A new study reports that though two-thirds of egg donors are satisfied with their experience, 14 percent reported negative feelings — and 12% reported mixed ones — following their procedures.
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By Intern KatyComment by WaltzingMatilda(theOriginal): They always had ads for this in our college newspaper. If I recall, some of them also required specific physical... 10 Responses | Other threads
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womb raiders
Orgasmic Childbirth Story Prompts Commenter Clashes
"When was the last time you had an orgasm with an eight-pound, twenty-inch penis," a pissy commenter wonders at the bottom of a brief story in the New York Times about the documentary Orgasmic Birth.
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By JessicaComment by LaComtesse: I fall in the boat of concern that this sort of thing will fetishize and place a higher expectation on... 27 Responses | Other threads
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surrogates
Do Women Really Become Surrogates For Purely Altruistic Reasons?
More and more women are selling their eggs and becoming surrogates because of the current economic clusterfuck, the Wall Street Journal reports. You can earn up to $50,000 by selling your eggs or renting your uterus. Besides the physical demands on egg donors (no drinking, no smoking, no sex) and the possible physical damage (your ovaries can become dangerously swollen), what sticks out about the article is when the CEO of an egg recruiting agency tells the Journal, "Many of these women have college loans to pay off or they want to help buy a house or provide for their own kids' education. But they are also looking to do something good for other families. And some of them say they love being pregnant."
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By JessicaComment by graciousplum: "...whether pure altruism exists (I generally lean towards no)..." Really? This seems like an awfully bleak view of the natures of... 34 Responses | Other threads
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ivf
IVF Patients To Other Infertile Females: Keep Your Paws Off Our Embryos
Hot on the heels of NYC socialite Alex Kuczynski's surrogacy overshare in the New York Times Magazine comes news that the majority of women who have undergone in vitro fertilization do not want to share their extra eggs. According to the Times, "53 percent did not want to donate their embryos to other couples, mostly because they did not want someone else bringing up their children, or did not want their own children to worry about encountering an unknown sibling someday."
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By JessicaComment by citrus buddha: That picture really bothers me, and I'm not sure why. They couldn't have pressed the surrogate's khakis, for instance? 29 Responses | Other threads
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alex kuczynski
Writer, Socialite Explains Her "Mad Desire" For A Baby Through Surrogacy
New York Times rich person-chronicler and plastic surgery enthusiast Alex Kuczynski wrote the cover story for the this Sunday's Times Magazine about having a baby through a surrogate. A couple of things are evident: Kuczynski worries too much about what her peers think, she is fairly flippant about the things her enormous wealth allows her to do, and that women face a ridiculous amount of judgment about their mothering choices. More »
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By JessicaComment by Dollface: I have a recurring nightmare that all the birth control I take is just useless hormone dosing because I am... 27 Responses | Other threads
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voodoo jezenomics
Once Upon A Time, When We Still Feared Global Poverty, We Learned A Very Interesting Rice Recipe
What is it about the "Global Population, Magnitude Of" thing that so vexes the world's rich people? I'm asking in light of the food crisis and the energy crisis bringing back that old "Malthusian population crisis" fear. I'm also asking in light of my kinda recent discovery that the American rights to the RU-486 abortion pill are owned by some super-secretive subsidiary of the Rockefeller-founded Population Council. (Which is, by the way, charging too much money for it.) But mainly I'm asking because I just read this NYRB piece on two new books about the population control movement in the '50s and '60s which, among other things, taught me this about the challenge Western family planners faced in getting (and sometimes coercing) Third worlders into embracing birth control:
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Comment by borogirl: @Ruby_Slippers: I'm sorry to hear you've gone through something like that. I had a similar experience. I have... more » | Other threads
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womb raiders
Is It About Time We Made A "Pregnancy Pact" Of Our Own?
The conventional wisdom holds that media types are biased in favor of the Theory of Evolution. So why is it all they seem to print these days are stories hellbent on convincing us that the WRONG PEOPLE are procreating?? No doubt you, too, spent more time over the past few months consuming the latest on the Duggar family and the Spears family, that mysteriously-coiffed cult of inbreds in the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Pedophiles and the seventeen bored teenagers' homeless deadbeat boyfriends than you did having unprotected sex. But is that good for the future of society? The Yemeni man who sold his 8-year-old daughter to the 30-year-old child molester only did it because he had 15 other children to feed on his panhandling income. And yet three thousand miles northwest in an unspeakably gorgeous town in Italy, the week's New York Times Magazine informs us, the mayor is paying women ten thousand Euros for every baby they can make.
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By MoeComment by snowygal18: @andromache: I'm just happy there's another Classics major Jezzie :) more » | Other threads
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womb raiders
Woman Sentenced To Year In Prison For Forging Son's Knocked-Up Girlfriend's "Parental Notification" Forms
Well here is a fucking mess. Girl, 16, gets pregnant. Girl tells boyfriend, boyfriend's mom finds out by snooping through his text messages, mom has big plans for her son, mom pressures girl to get an abortion, tells her not to tell her parents, forges the required parental notification letter and pays for everythign; girl gets abortion, girl for whatever reason notifies actual parents, girl and/or girl's parents get upset and go to authorities; mom is sentenced to a year in the DeKalb County Prison, the maximum sentence for a misdemeanor crime; I think I have counted like twenty different levels on which this is fucking depressing. I mean, from the girl's perspective, probably the only thing worse than thinking your mother's boyfriend doesn't think you're good enough for him — and I'm assuming that's what she thought — is entertaining the possibility that on top of all the general misery of teenage relationships you might have just killed someone, which also, this being Georgia, is probably what she thought. And then you're her parents. Maybe they're just litigious Evangelicals. More » -
post partum
So About That Harrowing "Ring Of Fire" Story…
We've written rather extensively on the month's Elle, but there is a meta elephant in the room we've been ignoring because, well duh. It's about what happens to your vagina during childbirth, and it's called "Ring of Fire," apparently an oft-used term for what happens during those final moments before the baby's head rips through your vadge. An additional, uh, "elephant" is that the author obviously read The Rachel Papers, the requisite horrifying exchange we've excerpted after the jump. But anyway. Author claims her vadge returns to something approaching normalcy and that sex is now good. Hm. Okay, so if you want to get married and have kids, you probably believe it's possible for sex to remain good and normal and lusty years into marriage. And it is. Maybe your parents did. Maybe you know one of those women who outrageously got pregnant again, like, right after the first baby came. My grandmother had seven kids and four miscarriages. I don't think she breastfed. I wasn't fucking breast fed, but my brother and sister were, and they're the ones who got all the allergies… More » -
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The Insane Story Of Stuart Miller's Hollywood Sperm Bank Bondage Cult
Meet Stuart Miller. You thought Dov Charney was a creepy boss? In Stuart's defense, he runs a sperm bank. But Growing Generations is a high-end sperm (and surrogate) bank catering to Hollywood agents and assorted other corporate bigwig types that was just profiled in W Magazine! So you can imagine how Miller's old marketing manager Scott Glasgow found it a little inappropriate when the Boss Man, according to a lawsuit just filed in federal court in Manhattan, emailed him this picture of himself. (There's an even more surreal — though surprisingly SFW — specimen from a company "team building" exercise after the jump.) Still, Glasgow liked his job. He made $100,000 helping gay couples "create new life"! So he had endured Miller's insistence that they share a bed on the company "Vision Cruise" even though he had no interest in actually doing him. The boss was going to make him VP! But then came all the cult classes:
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By MoeComment by louinacube: landmark is a cult, it gives self-absorbed a-holes an excuse, language and defense system to continue to be users. its... more » | Other threads
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home economics
The Management Perils Of Having Two Or More Nannies
Yesterday's Page Six Magazine attacked the subject of mommies who find themselves needing multiple nannies. (We thought it would be challenging for them to match the pathos and capacity for conveying human suffering reached by last week's story about Wall Street traders who go to massage parlors, but they did.) We meet Yael Halaas, a 38-year-old plastic surgeon and mother of three, who calls having two nannies "the best damn thing in the world to make life function." We learn that some women find themselves needing a second nanny for basic "one is illegal and can't come to Bermuda"-type purposes, others when they want their kids to be exposed to a blend of different personality traits and/or world cuisines ("I wake up to her cooking buckwheat crepes from scratch!" cooes one) others when the first one simply proves too competent at "management" functions, such as finding a second nanny. More » -
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Rush Limbaugh: Women Love Hillary Because They've "Had Two Or Three Abortions"
"You have to understand the mindset of a lot of these feminists and women...These women have paid their dues. They've been married two or three times; they've had two or three abortions; they've done everything that feminism asked them to do. They have cut men out of their lives; they have devoted themselves to causes and careers. And this — the candidacy of Hillary Clinton — is the culmination of all of these women's efforts." That's Hillary Clinton's friend Rush Limbaugh on his show yesterday, trying to rile the bonerkiller squad as every day. But hey, let's unpack this. Because to be quite honest, it's a slightly more nuanced portrayal than we're used to from the Right Wing Talk radio, among whom "two or three abortions" is generally code for "whore whore slut" and/or "irresponsible minority rendered incapable by the Massive Welfare State of taking accountability for her actions." No, these women have had two or three abortions because living up to the demands of feminism was some grueling war of attrition. Hm. Sometimes I think it is! Come on Rush, you're human, get inside that woman's head. She's at the clinic, paying for the second abortion she had to get because she "cut men out of her life" — which, let's just be honest, who really does that besides lesbians, Rush?
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By MoeComment by porkchop2000: Rush Limbaugh makes me wish that natural selection were a little less natural. If I knew I was going to... more » | Other threads
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womb raiders
When Did Baby Weight Become Just Plain Fat?
A week or two ago I glanced up from my laptop long enough to catch my first glimpse of a commercial whose audio I had heard dozens of times before. It was for Nutri-System, and the audio consisted of a woman's claim to have lost 41 pounds following the weight-loss regimen. Is that Jillian Barberie? I wondered, unaware that the morning television personality I had watched habitually for years as a resident of Los Angeles in the earlier part of this century had since changed her name to Jillian Barberie-Reynolds or, more to the point, that she had become fat. (And, mercifully, thin again.) I consulted Google: indeed, she had gained 41 pounds. And what unfortunate fate had occasioned this traumatic bloat in Jillian's trademark svelte frame? Oh, pregnancy. Hmm. Well, then. It is now a few weeks later, and I find myself mulling the merits of Lisa Marie Presley's libel lawsuit against the Daily Mail for a related phenomenon, the equation of the weight gained due to one's pregnancy with weight gained due to eating an excess of food.
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womb raiders
Why Can't Non-Batshit Pro-Lifers Give It Up And Accept The Abortion Pill?
This is Rep. Ray Salva, Missouri Democrat. An early supporter of John Edwards, the Catholic and lifetime Missouri resident is a member of the Optimist's Club and known to be a friend of the environment, the homeless and the eroding middle-class. But we write about him for a much more baffling reason: his addition of an amendment to a statehouse anti-methamphetamine bill. The bill was your typical "make buying Sudafed a pain in the ass" measure. But Salva's amendment would do something entirely unrelated: it would add mifepristone, the RU-486 abortion pill, to the state's list of Schedule 1 Controlled Substances, the list where substances find themselves if they have a high potential for abuse and no accepted medical use. "What other drug could be more harmful (than one that takes) a life?" It's not a bad question: Salva, no stranger to substance abuse, was arrested for drunk driving last February; surely the sort of behavior that could wind up taking a human life.
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By MoeComment by bruitdautrui: If you're down for feeling a sense of loss about the whole thing, if you're at all reflective, if you... more » | Other threads
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womb raiders
Gossip Girl Writer Turns Fertility Paranoia Porn Into An Art Form
I never really understood what women's magazines were for until a story in the April Glamour made it all clear: they are fertility pity porn for single ambitious women who find themselves suddenly seized with the paranoia that they'll be forever unable to bear children. Duh! Okay, but this month's motherhood memoirist, Gossip Girl writer Jessica Queller, is a special case: aside from deciding to be a single mom after years and years of careerism and dating, she tests positive for the BRCA mutation, which makes people more likely to get breast and cervical cancer, and opts to get a preventative double mastectomy first. (And if you were wondering, which you probably weren't because it always happens like this in preventative double mastectomy stories — she takes the opportunity to make her breasts smaller. "I opted for silicone implants and traded in my pinup-girl, size 32D breasts (which always felt too big on me) for a B cup," she writes.) And then... More »
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By MoeComment by Flackette Goes Retro: See, Readymade never has this drama. Just how to build my own entertainment center. Much better for my mental health. more » | Other threads
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selling out to a man
Canned Career Columnist: "Take That Career Drive And Direct It Toward Mating!"
Last we heard from Penelope Trunk, she was a Yahoo! Finance career columnist in the midst of being unceremoniously sacked for the women's ghetto of the company's "Lifestyle" channels. We were deeply saddened, as we often agreed with her advice, like the time she said that if you want a better job, "Don't work hard! Work out!". Well, THANK GOD PRINT ISN'T DEAD. Because Penelope has resurfaced in the pages of the Boston Globe with some urgent advice for her old "Brazen Careerist" followers: freeze your eggs, get them tested for "premature aging" and: "If you are past your early twenties, and you're single and want to have children,you need to find a partner now. Take that career drive and direct it toward mating - your ovaries will not last longer than your career." Oh, Penelope. Spoken like the scorned woman you... are! But here's the thing. More »
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By MoeComment by twistedspinster: I had to laugh when I saw the Globe hired Ms. Trunk - I thought her column on Yahoo! was... more » | Other threads
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felicia sullivan
This woman tried to sell her eggs for coke! That's the ever-sober Page Six Magazine for you. Felicia Sullivan learned cokeheads who want to sell their ova don't tend to have adequate medical histories. Oh, so twentysomething women desperate enough to sell their eggs for six or seven grand are expected to know their medical histories now? Guess that kills that idea. There's always selling your memoir! Felicia's is available used and new starting at $8.
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By MoeComment by kentuckienne: I thought about egg donation; there were always ads in the student paper from parents looking for tall blondes with... more » | Other threads
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womb raiders
The Fetal Pain No One Talks About
Fetuses may be able to feel pain as early as eighteen weeks, claims a story in Sunday's New York Times Magazine. (Also in the weekend's Times: a review of a book that makes the scientific argument that life begins at conception. Fun!) So anyway, the story explores the highly-specialized world of fetal surgery, a world rife with tales of 23-week old fetuses flinching and recoiling at the touch of surgeons' scalpels, and in which it has now become common practice to offer fetuses anesthesia, in part as the result of new research that shows that fetuses as young as 18 weeks would show a massive flood of stress hormones when undergoing fetal procedures sans anesthesia. The story is an interesting reexamination of the long-accepted notion that fetuses feel no pain, and the attendant controversy surrounding the ramifications on a thorny little political debate known as the "abortion issue." And as with all stories that dare to go beyond the black/white of the life begins at conception/birth debate, I found it illuminating. But even if you buy the doctors' assertions, only about 5% of the country's abortions are conducted on fetuses that feel pain.
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By MoeComment by Tara Incognita: @descendfromgrace: I don't think your point of view is anti-fem or anti-God. more » | Other threads
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womb raiders
Egg Donation: You're Probably Better Off Stripping
Forget pole-dancing, right? Nowadays, young women with money problems and dreams of advanced degrees are being paid thousands of dollars to donate their eggs to infertile couples and the demand for their DNA is only increasing, says the NY Times. Reports the paper: "Ethicists and some women's health advocates worry that lucrative payments are enticing young women with credit-card debt and steep tuition bills to sell eggs without seriously evaluating the risks." More »
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By AnnaComment by SexCpotatoes: Silly Jezibelle, it's only an abortion if the egg is fertilized, or are we now using the "abortificient" definition, that... more » | Other threads
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womb raiders
Womb Raiders: Salma Hayek's Designer Baby
- Salma Hayek is not only engaged to but expecting a baby with Francois-Henri Pinault, who oversees the company that owns auction-house Christie's as well as design labels like YSL, Stella McCartney and Gucci. [E!Online]
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