Oh, good grief, they ARE planning on creating Gilead!
Fuckers, indeed….
Hey, if my ATM card stops working, I am so outta here….
New federal guidelines ask all females capable of conceiving a baby to treat themselves — and to be treated by the health care system — as pre-pregnant, regardless of whether they plan to get pregnant anytime soon.
Among other things, this means all women between first menstrual period and menopause should take folic acid supplements, refrain from smoking, maintain a healthy weight and keep chronic conditions such as asthma and diabetes under control.
Guidelines Urge Women to Be Prepared for Pregnancy
A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report seeks to improve preconception health and health care. The advice is aimed at patients, doctors, public health professionals, researchers, policymakers and government agencies. The steps recommended for patients include:
While most of these recommendations are well known to women who are pregnant or seeking to get pregnant, experts say it’s important that women follow this advice throughout their reproductive lives, because about half of pregnancies are unplanned and so much damage can be done to a fetus between conception and the time the pregnancy is confirmed.
The recommendations aim to “increase public awareness of the importance of preconception health” and emphasize the “importance of managing risk factors prior to pregnancy,” said Samuel Posner, co-author of the guidelines and associate director for science in the division of reproductive health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which issued the report.
Be sure to read Mac’s excellent take on this, as well.
Lastly, though, your recommendations accomplish nothing, other than making women feel like incubators with legs. As you mention in your report, the real cause of the infant mortality rate is poverty. If the family is poor, the mother probably won’t have access to healthcare (pre-natal or otherwise). What good is it to recommend that women be classified as Handmaids, er, ‘pre-pregnant’ and treated as such by medical professionals when the poor families directly responsible for the infant mortality rate won’t be treated as pre-pregnant because they do not have access to or cannot afford medical care?
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OMG! This is the most frightening think I have read in a long time.
Umm, what a Freudian slip. I meant to write “thing” not “think.”