What Women Want
By Judie Brown
It is always fascinating to read news reports about women and pregnancy. There seems to be a concerted effort to present women as superior beings who can exercise their choices in a way that glorifies some perceived power possessed by women. You will read reports of women who went to extraordinary lengths to bear a child, including the use of repeated reproductive technology therapies such as in vitro fertilization. Or you might encounter the popular theme of those women who have aborted “problem pregnancies” and how relieved they were to be able to exercise that “choice.”
At either end of the spectrum resides a common but rarely noted theme: motherhood.
There is the woman in New Jersey, for example, who at the age of 56, after repeated attempts through in vitro fertilization, finally conceived – if that is the proper word – a set of twins. It is said that her story created an international buzz due to her age and the extent to which she pursued her goal of having a child.
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