Fertility Treatments = Strains of Fascism?
June 14, 2008 by Gabrielle
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
Very, very curious about how you feel about this article in today’s Guardian in which Nicholas Blincoe wonders why people try to conceive spend so much time whining (his words, not mine):
Is this nuts? How can you mourn for something that has never existed? The very notion seems an insult to anyone who has ever mourned a real dead child. It speaks of a bizarre sense of entitlement: the idea that “anything I can imagine, I should have!” Worse, it suggests that biology is destiny in a way that makes a mockery of free-will and seems reminiscent of strains of fascism.
Before you go nuts, you should know that Mr. Blincoe himself is infertile and he and his wife are unable to bear children. So this isn’t a case of a “misinformed fertile.”
but it is a different point of view. Apparently based on perusing the recent comment section of the New York Times article on living childfree.
I have some thoughts about this, but I’ll wait to hear some of yours first.
I don’t know how I mourn something that never really exisited, but over a year later I still am. Even though I now have a child, I still cry over the one that never made it. Does it make sense, no, but that isn’t what matters.
I can’t believe that someone who has struggled with infertility would say something this colossally stupid. I’d be very curious to know his wife’s thoughts on the matter.