Word: childbirth
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...enlightened age, sex is nothing to be ashamed of. It is a natural, fulfilling experience closely linked with love, and, for the less fortunate, childbirth. It is a bond between two individuals. It is the culmination of a mature relationship...
...fems and the Fathers agree that woman are, before anything else, females. Since childbirth is a defining aspect of femininity, a child cannot be alienated from its mother by so material an abstraction as a contract. But then the church and the feminists disagree: The Church uses this reasoning to oppose all forms of surrogate parenting, including in vitrio fertilization. The feminists merely oppose the notion of contracting for a baby. They say that a surrogate mother must retain the right to renege on the deal if she so pleases...
...great artist--that genius which is peculiar to and defines him--as the child is of the surrogate mother? I would argue that it is even more so. The moral strength of "motherhood" doesn't derive from the mere carrying of the child. The mechanical rigors of childbirth are common to all women. The spirit and personality of the parent are not imparted so much in the biological production of the child as in the nurturing and rearing...
...laibon used a Dik-dik, that small lovely antelope, to thwart someone's plans. It works thus: he places charms upon the animal and then releases it in the direction of the person who is the target of the spell. For help with childbirth, he drapes the skin of an eland on the woman -- the eland being much like the cow, which possesses magic powers. In order to bring rain, the laibon places a dead frog on the ground, belly up, with a charm upon it. Within 24 hours, before the frog decays, the rain will fall...
...bear a child for William and Elizabeth Stern. But her certainties crumbled when she gave birth last March to the girl she calls Sara, the Sterns call Melissa and court papers call Baby M. In hours of emotional testimony last week, Whitehead told the court that the experience of childbirth "overpowered" her. Her husband said that after handing over the child to the Sterns, his wife cried hysterically, asking, "Oh God, what have I done...