There’s an American blog I read from time to time that goes by the name of Gin and Tacos. It has an irregular feature entitled FJM, in which the author takes egregiously stupid comment articles and systematically destroys them for the edification of his readers. (FJM stands for Fire Joe Morgan, a now-defunct baseball blog [...]
Imagine a 27-year-old woman with a non-hereditary medical condition who’s been told by doctors that she should only expect to live to 45. Despite this, she chooses to have a child, knowing she’ll probably die around the time the child turns 18. Is this wrong? According to the Daily Mail, apparently yes. The death this [...]
Today the Observer published an extremely alarming report that Dr Denis Walsh, “one of the countries most influential midwives,” has argued that women should be receiving less pain relief in child-birth, in favour of “yoga, hypnosis, massage, support from their partners, hydrotherapy and birthing pools as natural ways of alleviating their pain.” Walsh mixes up [...]
