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Academics Call Pregnancy A Disease

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The peer-reviewed paper is “Is pregnancy a disease? A normative approach” by Ann Smajdor and Joona Räsänen in BMJ’s Journal of Medical Ethics.

(Incidentally, for new readers, I always emphasize the “peer review” to show how perfectly ridiculous the concept is.)

Here’s a portion of the Abstract, with my emphasis:

…We argue that there are some compelling grounds for regarding pregnancy as a disease. Like a disease, pregnancy affects the health of the pregnant person, causing a range of symptoms from discomfort to death. Like a disease, pregnancy can be treated medically. Like a disease, pregnancy is caused by a pathogen, an external organism invading the host’s body. Like a disease, the risk of getting pregnant can be reduced by using prophylactic measures. We address the question of whether the ‘normality’ of pregnancy, its current necessity for human survival…We conclude that there are both normative and pragmatic reasons to consider pregnancy a disease.
I don’t know about you, dear reader, but the first notion that struck me after I read this was What did their parents do to these academics. However, evidence for that being impossible for me to obtain, we’ll look at the paper instead.

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This is how extinction happens.
I do not know if the dodo birds all kept following the leader as they fell off the cliff, but if this is how they feel... ?

Meantime the ones who want life - are growing in numbers and the ones who do not are not repopulating - decrease?
 
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The peer-reviewed paper is “Is pregnancy a disease? A normative approach” by Ann Smajdor and Joona Räsänen in BMJ’s Journal of Medical Ethics.

(Incidentally, for new readers, I always emphasize the “peer review” to show how perfectly ridiculous the concept is.)

Here’s a portion of the Abstract, with my emphasis:


I don’t know about you, dear reader, but the first notion that struck me after I read this was What did their parents do to these academics. However, evidence for that being impossible for me to obtain, we’ll look at the paper instead.

Continued below.
The academics are the disease, sheesh. Modern academia is a scourge.
 
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What does this make children then? These are demon possessed minds that seem to be increasing in the secular, exalted “science”.
Blows my mind. Oh brave new world, oh brave new world.
 
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