Truly demented

The mind reels.

So…it’s bad to make efforts to have a healthy (or “fit”) baby, because doing so may reflect eugenicist and biomedical moralist underpinnings.

What, I wondered, is biomedical moralism? Is it a label in common use? Not according to Google, which has never heard of it. I’m guessing it’s a label for thinking it’s better to have a healthy baby than a sick or weak or underweight one, and that it’s better to have a baby without any disabilities than it is to have a disabled baby. I suppose I get the idea in a sense – that rejoicing at health and absence of disabilities carries with it messages about people who lack health and/or have disabilities. I get that parents maybe shouldn’t lean too hard on the health of their new baby in the presence of people who are not so fortunate, but other than that? Should pregnant women and their nurses and doctors not even do what they can to produce healthy babies? Should they voluntarily and knowingly allow babies to be born with preventable disabilities?

In a pig’s eye, yet that’s what these sociologists are claiming, in language veiled by sociojargon.

Also, “pregnant people.”

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