Wednesday, July 22, 2009 - Posts
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In response to Meredith's request to the mothers among us to tote up the number of "billable hours" in a pregnancy: This sum seems inherently incalculable, not only because it would differ wildly and unforeseeably from person to person and pregnancy to pregnancy, but because the normal model of pay for work just doesn't apply to bearing a child for someone else in exchange for money ... (Read the rest of this post, or the whole conversation, in Double X.)
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Although she now has been buried, I wanted to comment about the death
of Chechyn rights activist Natalia Estemirova. The stories of her life
are singularly stunning ... (Read more in Double X.)
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A post from Double X writer Meredith Simons:
Jessica, Kerry, and Sarah,
your posts have me curious about the price of parenthood in surrogate
situations, for both “intended parents” and surrogates. I crunched some
numbers using the $20,000 payment that you mentioned, Sarah, and was
shocked to realize that a surrogate making that much for a full-term
pregnancy would earn less than half the federal minimum wage... (Read more in Double X.)
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Just as upsetting to me as the Henry Louis Gates Jr. arrest, Emily, is the way that so many people have been responding, including in our own comments section ... (Read more in Double X.)
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Longterm friendships—like any other relationships that are important to
men and women—sometimes hit bumps in the road. But when do you decide
to bail out? ... (Read more in Double X.)
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