Another example of a potential that never was? My parents met in college. But the college they met at wasn't my mother's first choice--she wanted to go to GM Tech (now Kettering College) to study engineering, but it was restricted to men only. If she'd gone there the odds that she would have met some out-of-state student at a university halfway across the state is pretty laughable. So I owe my existence to sexism. Does that make it a good thing?
Interesting! I'm in a similar sitch (my mum had a miscarriage before she got pregnant with each of my younger sisters, less than nine months with both) but it never occurred to me to connect it to those issues...
It's one of those "once you think it you can't unthink it" things. When my mother had her miscarriage her doctor told her that a third of all pregnancies spontaneously abort, for any or no reason, often before the woman even knew she was pregnant. He reassured her that it said nothing about her ability to carry the next one to term. If every embryo is a living soul, god is spectacularly wasteful of them.
My mother passed that information about early miscarriages along to my sister-in-law, who also miscarried at a very early stage of gestation. Come to think on it, my niece wouldn't have been born either if that one had gone to term, so my niece is the result of *two* miscarriages, the one preceding her father and the one preceding herself.
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Another example of a potential that never was? My parents met in college. But the college they met at wasn't my mother's first choice--she wanted to go to GM Tech (now Kettering College) to study engineering, but it was restricted to men only. If she'd gone there the odds that she would have met some out-of-state student at a university halfway across the state is pretty laughable. So I owe my existence to sexism. Does that make it a good thing?
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My mother passed that information about early miscarriages along to my sister-in-law, who also miscarried at a very early stage of gestation. Come to think on it, my niece wouldn't have been born either if that one had gone to term, so my niece is the result of *two* miscarriages, the one preceding her father and the one preceding herself.
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