Since when is motherhood a profession? A profession requires specialized training and formal qualifications.

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I'm sorry, you aren't even a mother yet you will tell actual mothers how they should feel about motherhood? yeahthatmakesfuckingsense

You say privilege, I say biological process that the majority of women are able to perform. It is (or should be) an awesome responsibility, but a privilege? Well, if you're going with the definition as 'a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group of people' then…

I have honestly not seen many articles that describe pregnancy or motherhood in that way. Certainly not "wrong" and "a waste of a woman's life and figure". Pregnancy and childbirth are, at times, disgusting. Ask people who have had that experience.

Just so we are clear, you are just talking because you don't know shit about having a baby or raising one...I should have known.

Why should it be celebrated? You do realize the crux of your argument is your personal feelings about how other people should feel about pregnancy and birth? YOU may feel like it is beautiful and wonderful. Other women may feel like it's gross and parasitic. Feminism is not championing one view over the other. You're…

Grow the fuck up. Pregnancy is a complicated biological process that is an incredible strain on the body. The more we know about how pregnancies work, the more science we have behind the process from fertilization to birth, the more we know about what and embryo is and does, the more people are going to be able to…

This is one of the only places I can bitch about that stuff. I'm not for making babies, and I don't want to pretend to care constantly about baby everything. Sorry you don't like it, I'm sure you can get your baby love at some mommy blog.

You must be reading a different Jezebel than I am. The one I read counts hundreds of moms among its commenters and generally does a great job of balancing both sides of a given issue.

They're comparing them, not equating them.

"Children are wonderful and their way into this world is amazing..." you don't say?! Having given birth after being invaded by an alien for 9+ months, and having raised said ailen to adulthood, I feel more than qualified to offer an opinion in response to your comment. Children, no matter how much you love them, are…

This article is about embryos and tumors - neither of which are children. Stop projecting your issues on everyone else.

"A baby is a baby."

The day Brazilian girls will be allowed to burn to death in their school because they're wearing too much clothing and, because, upon being rescued, they would offend the rescuers' eyes for wearing a shirt and skirt instead of a bikini, is the day when I believe Brazilian women are more oppressed.

I feel perfectly okay criticizing female genital mutilation, regardless of which culture happens to practice it.

I'm not defending particular traditions, nor criticizing them. I'm just saying who are we to criticize any other culture? What are we going to do, sit back and tsk the horrible evil people who follow their own traditions? Or perhaps send in some UN 'human rights' workers to put an end to something we shouldn't even…

There are health risks to this whole practice: improper sanitation, not being able to fully clean menstrual cloths in order to avoid later infections, oh, AND BEING FORCED TO CLUMP UP IN TINY SHACKS WITHOUT ELECTRICITY AND RUN THE RISK OF RAPE AND SNAKE BITE. But you go on, defending "traditions" that are just more…

The last guy should have worn a speedo. Just saying.