This may well be old news by now. I’m on a longer than usual holiday weekend and it’s hard to take a computer with you on your windsurfer. Sorry about the slow posting days, but I think we all need a couple of those. Anyway, Facebook will now have a new “expecting” option:
The social networking site has added that option — “Expected: Child” — that users can add as part of their family members.
This is surely a sign that Facebook is quite far away from the coolio university network that Mark Zuckenberg first intended. It also does betray the idea that there is a child on the way in every pregnancy. Stating that is not quite as obvious as it may seem at first glance… plenty of people “on the other side” of this debate work pretty hard to pretend otherwise.
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I have found that the “other side” doesn’t pretend that ALL pregnancies don’t involve a child, but has determined that a mother can decide if her baby is a baby or not. This false determinism stems from pro-choicers who are hurt by “IT IS NOT A BABY” being screamed at women who are in mourning for the loss of their miscarried children but who also want to negate the natural guilt of women who choose to abort their child(ren).
Good point, Heather. The fetus is whatever you want it to be, depending on wantedness.