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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI think everyone here will enjoy this.
The link is to a story in the magazine Lightspeed.
https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/motherhood/?fbclid=IwAR3MgZZXcRTDDvPSLOdeXyR7j3fhrFggKKeTnER0YjsRKZ2QPws1Eoab0CI
magicarpet
(14,155 posts)... motherhood is far more exciting. Breast feeding has a sharp learning curve, but with enough time and hormones you will learn the ropes.
Kali
(55,014 posts)Caliman73
(11,738 posts)Like when Steinem said, "if men could menstruate and women could not' 'menstruation would become an enviable, worthy, masculine event: men would brag about how long and how much'.
Men get to be so cavalier about abortion because pregnancy is not something we will ever have to face.
Talitha
(6,593 posts)I wish it could be so.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)erronis
(15,303 posts)There was a sci-fi novel about that... let's see if I can find it.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)mountain grammy
(26,623 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,829 posts)Or there is option 2.... now that you and your wife have been made 'one' by marriage, as the Biblical head of household you can opt to force your wife to accept the implantation and carry the baby to full term.
localroger
(3,629 posts)Relatives by marriage can't serve. Awwwwww.
keithbvadu2
(36,829 posts)It's all a fantasy anyway.
Lots of good hypotheticals in this story.
calimary
(81,318 posts)Gloria Steinem once said if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/17/gloria-steinem-activist-interview-memoir-my-life-on-the-road