The Price of Putting off Baby
July 12, 2014
Carie Zampich succumbed to Feminist propaganda
and postponed having a baby until it was too late.
Philip Wyeth describes her Frankenstein-like ordeal of
child creation and explains why he doesn't feel sorry
for her or her husband.
"And thus began a five-year, $82,000 journey into the world of infertility treatment which transformed a most natural part of the human experience into ... the script synopsis for 'Prometheus 2.'"
Eyes Wide Shut on Infertility Street
by Philip Wyeth
(henrymakow.com)
While having an afternoon beer at a neighborhood coffee shop I randomly picked up the July 2014 issue of Money magazine and read an article entitled "Waiting for Baby" which dramatically chronicles a 40-something couple's long journey to get pregnant. Not reacting as I'm sure 99.8% of other readers did, I found myself shaking my head and chuckling with the occasional exasperated snort--was I the only person who saw this whole scene as the epitaph for the last 45 years of American society?
You see, Carrie Zampich was 36 years old when she got married to her husband Dan and they began trying to have a baby in 2009. No doubt as a child of the 1970s, she was raised within the feminist paradigm that eschewed young motherhood for a college degree and a career.
But then as always happens the old biological clock chimed in with a little FYI: "Hey, these eggs won't last forever." And thus began a five-year, $82,000 journey into the world of infertility treatment which transformed a most natural part of the human experience into a grotesque series of in-vitro injections for her, a trip to a clinic in the Czech Republic to save a few bucks, jumping through hoops and prostrating before the health insurance altar, a first-trimester miscarriage, and even a small surgery to clear some sperm blockage for him. Wait, is this the script synopsis for "Prometheus 2"?
And at the end of it all, after first trying to unite his sperm with her egg, then donor sperm with her egg, we soon come to the final laughable-if-it-weren't-so-heartbreaking-and-cruel act: merging his sperm with a donor egg to grow in Carrie's body. She rationalizes this grim last stop by saying, "I get to carry the baby. That's enough for me." I'd call this form of self-surrogacy SIM-Pregnancy, a going through of the motions for the ego, for the photo album, for the "memories."
NATURE DOESN'T GIVE RAIN-CHECKS
Eighteen-year-old girls don't have trouble getting pregnant. 24-year-old women don't have much of a problem either. But in our society we've simply declared men and women as equal and interchangeable. I really don't blame any cynical medical types who open a fertility clinic to cash in on this delusion. They don't allow lipstick manufacturers to test their products on monkeys or rats anymore, but it's amazing in what name we'll justify the indignities of being used as scientific test subjects ourselves.
Perhaps girls should at least be made aware of the biological facts before they enter college. Maybe men, once they've established themselves in their careers, should take a younger woman in prime fertility as his wife. Our species used to celebrate the magic and mystery of our sex differences, and we once embraced female power with wild fertility rites. I guess hormone injections and a stranger's thawed sperm don't inspire such zesty rituals...
Let's imagine Carrie had graduated from college in 1995 and within a few years married a successful man eight years her senior. At age 26, she gives birth to a healthy baby boy who boasts both parents' DNA, then she stays home to care for the child. They pay less to the IRS because her work as a mother does not produce taxable income; they aren't paying for a nanny...and they aren't being ground through the infertility racket.
But instead, "they've borrowed against Carrie's 401(k) plan, maxed out their credit cards, taken donations from family and friends, and routinely worked side jobs for extra cash." Cut to Carrie babysitting a friend's kids, then pan camera to window as Dan passes by walking other people's dogs around the neighborhood--just to pay off the bills for a laboratory baby that may never arrive. When can someone's failure be seen as a warning and an opportunity to consider another way, as opposed to just this endless lament, this pathetic sob story devoid of context or implications?Along the way the couple experienced some financial bad luck: "$275 to replace Dan's windshield after a tree limb fell on his car; a $1,300 vet bill when their dog Minnie fell on a tree branch that went through her shoulder; and $450 when their other dog, Mylo, was bitten by a snake." An ornery snake?! Who writes this shit? I know I'm supposed to feel sorry for these saps but I just snorted out my beer!
I honestly don't care whose Pavlovian ire I provoke for uttering these "insensitive" thoughts... Our society is reaping the consequences of flawed ideas that have had several generations to play out--and now it's high time for a reevaluation.
At the very least, I implore men looking for potential spouses to date women whose age would suggest a high chance of natural conception.
"Love conquers all" be damned, everyone has had enough high school heartbreaks and one-night-stands to sink the Titanic. And if women aren't shamed for marrying a man because he's successful, I too will not be called calculating and heartless for choosing my bride based on the criteria of what she can provide for me, namely offspring that don't require the goddamned surgical team from the movie "Sleeper" loading up a turkey baster to create!
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First Comment from Carl:
They call them libtards for a reason. The whole feminist, abortion for convenience, I don't like children, there are too many children, arrested development type of mentality are some or the strongest spells cast on society. Of course this includes the same folks who think CO2 is a lethal gas and guess who exhales it, babies. There are people so stupid that in a world of bombing orphans they think its a good idea to murder the people who will likely love them forever if they raise them correctly. Sadly I agree that the forty something "useful idiots" get what they deserve even if I pity them, however the abortion component is really sad because a big portion of the people under 22 are getting them.
We have sacrificed so many lives to their god, probably mostly the best stock too as its mostly good looking narcissists from middle class backgrounds who eviscerate their young so they can be put into products at your grocery store.
Is it true? Probably, there are people who drop white phosphorus on children.
Jennifer:
Men have biological clocks too. Men in their late 30s and after 40 have low and unhealthy sperm. http://www.nytimes.com/ref/
Tony B said (July 13, 2014):
I've been saying most of my life - plus at least several times in emails to you - that we are intended to marry and start a family as soon as puberty has done its work. So as not to "burn" passionately, as is said somewhere in the bible. Would eliminate the great majority of "sex crimes" for one thing. Very unnatural for people to hold off after puberty.
Even in the protestant world, until the last century or so, both girls and boys were "home" prepared to live on their own and raise their own families by this time in life although usually the boys spent some years getting established with a real living - even property ownership - and so married girls some years younger than themselves.
It is not by accident that in most of the "west" today both sexes are kept in a perpetual child stage on purpose for as long as mentally and emotionally possible, i.e., public schools, tv, many churches, government, etc.