Ooo Oooo - What a Little Ire Can Do

I first heard about this poll over at Here We Go Again last month. I emailed my thoughts which I have included below. This week I received an email from a fact checker at Parenting asking me to verify my identity and my comments - apparantly they want to quote me. Me? Little ol' me? We'll see how much editing they do and hopefully the gist of my comments will still be there. I got a chuckle out of the subject line of the email I received. They are now calling it a "debate" as opposed to a "poll". Umm, well yeah, ask such a loaded question and it is going to stoke a big firestorm of response. I think though, sometimes, maybe that is the point? It will be interesting to see what becomes of this Once-Poll-Now-Debate. The comments I saw in the forum were all pretty much along the same reaction as mine was. I wonder if others in the Stirrup Queen's blog-o-verse have heard from Parenting as well?

"Should a woman be able to use fertility treatments to get pregnant if she already has kids?

Absolutely. Are you kidding me with this question? Should a woman be able to have sex to get pregnant even if she already has kids? I fail to see the difference. To question if a woman should be able to use fertility treatments to expand her family if she needs to utilize fertility treatments to do so, is ludicrous and quite frankly a bit discriminatory. A woman's family size is her business. How she creates that family is her business also. Infertility is an extremely intense emotional and physical experience - it can be devastating and frustrating, not to mention expensive. Placing restrictions on women who are already dealing with an inequality is just more injustice.

Shame on you asking this question - even under the guise of a poll. The only purpose a remark like that serves is to be inflammatory - just like the "polls" over breastfeeding/bottlefeeding; csection/non-surgical; stay at home/working; etc, etc, etc . . ."