Women get pregnant all the time; why should it be any different for a disabled woman? Oh wait...it's because we ARE different!

Well, you know, at first I was inclined to say, "Hey wha-???"  But after thinking for a minute I have to agree with you.  If we want to be seen as just like everyone else and treated just like everyone else, then we don't need to be putting disabled people on pedestals just because they do things any able-bodied person would.

Having said that, I happen to think it takes guts for any woman to go through nine months of carrying a growing weight inside and getting fatter and so forth and then go through labour pains to give birth.  We women have to have our strengths to go through all that. LOL no wonder we're superior to men in many ways!

Kat

On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 11:12:36 -0500 James Fee <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Guys,

Jennifer Zubko wrote:

>  You are so brave.

I don't want to make enemies here, nor do I wish to belittle the life
the grows in Jenn's tummy.  There is surely something of note going on
here...A child, born of woman, conceived of man, shall soon begin
a journey, an exceptional journey at that, in the sands of time.  Yet
must we except that this is "Brave"?  If we call it "Brave" have not
we, ourselves, bought the BIG LIE?

The BIG LIE is that this brother and sisterhood that is CP somehow
makes us less then those around us.  Jenn's answer was what made me
proudest.

> I wouldn't describe myself as being brave for having or becomming
> pregnant with this baby... I am a woman who simply wanted to share

> the love my spouse  and I share and I and chose to try to become

> pregnant.


I wouldn't either Jenn, I'd call you a woman with child...and there is

glory enough in that for all of us!!  You don't have to be "Brave"
Jenn, like all of us...you just must BE.

Please, Let's let the things of normal life be normal to US, for surely
they are not to others.

Jim Fee, Husband to Jane
who has lost 4 babies to miscarrage.