I was told that delivering a baby would be “the most beautiful thing I’d ever see.” “Yeah, OK” I thought. I already knew from watching that stuff on TV that I most likely didn’t want to have anything to do with it. Bodily fluids squirting and splashing around just isn’t my forte.
Anyway, the time came and I was intentionally slow about putting on my protective gear. I wanted to be at the back of the pack, and at least watch once before I was thrown in head first. “Get up there and deliver the placenta” they said. “Actually, I’ll just watch that too if that’s cool” was my reply.
As I had initially thought, birth was nothing “beautiful” in my mind. Nine times out of ten we’d have some really dirty woman with no prenatal care spitting out their fourth, fifth or sixth child. Beautiful? Nah, nasty is more like it. There’s more blood and bodily fluids from a vaginal delivery than most major traumas. You better put your knee boots on or else you’ll be throwing away your shoes, socks and scrub pants.
With absolutely no intention of going into clinical medicine, who cares if I never delivered a baby while on my OB rotation? The honest truth is that I haven’t. Ever. I don’t care, either. I have no use for the knowledge of delivering a child. If a woman goes into labor close me I’ll just do what every other normal person would do and call 911. It’s pretty simple.
After watching a dozen or so vaginal deliveries, I have to say that they are far from beautiful. Cats, dogs, horses, cows and all other mammals have live births. Why is that a human birth is so “special?” More often than not, the women having the babies don’t deserve to be having them anyway. Instead of humanistic candy-ass liberals we need more mandatory tubal ligations.
“Instead of humanistic candy-ass liberals we need more mandatory tubal ligations.”
If you are using the term “liberal” in a political context, then I think you might want to reconsider that statement. Every liberal-minded individual I know, including myself, supports a woman’s right to choose whether or not to carry a baby to term. On the contrary, it’s typically the conservative, right-wing, Christian Fundamentalist Republicans who jump on the “Pro-Life” bandwagon (yet, ironically, support the death penalty). These people want to make every accidental or unwanted pregnancy in the world result in a baby. Unfortunately, if a woman doesn’t want it, she’s not just going to change her mind and become a great mother – she’s either going to keep the child and neglect it so much that it becomes one more burden for the rest of society, or put it up for adoption where, statistically, it is NOT highly likely that some nice happy family is going to come along and snatch the kid up and make sure he/she becomes some prep-school Ivy League success story. Instead, he/she will grow up in foster care or bounced from one home to another until, at age 18, he/she will be thrust out into the real world as an unproductive waste of space.
Of course, that’s only if you were talking politics. Even so, men will always have a different perspective on pregnancy and birth than women. As for myself, I think “no uterus, no opinion.” Men can decide what happens to a baby boy’s foreskin instead…I’ll gladly step aside on that issue.
You’re right, I wasn’t using the term “liberal” in a political context.
Medical students and residents (regardless of gender) are forced to have an opinion because they are subjected to the fluid sprays and long hours of caring for these women who should be having tubal ligations instead of babies.
HAHAHAHA i was laughing out loud reading this….fantastic and the reason its so funny is because it’s so TRUE
What a moronic post! No one with this attitude should even be allowed to get into med school!
You have alot of anger inside. Therapy would be in order for you. What a waste of space in medical school.
Hilarious! Hahhahaha genius!