From: "beadie cambardella" <[log in to unmask]>
> I can understand why someone would ask this question.    It was the  birth
> experiences with my four children (psychosexual vaginal experiences :))
<<snip>>
> birth memory.  Someone with unresolved issues around the birth of their
own
> children might not be the best person for such a job.
> Now someone with a good philosophy for parent advocacy, "the light in the
> eye", and good management skills -aha- there is a good candidate.

    while i agree that this could be an important issue, i also think that
it could become a legal issue, just as asking a womon if she has children or
is pregnant or planning to become pregnant could be. one's reproductive
herstory is not supposed to be a factor in employment in the US, right?

Maka Laughingwolf
life-after-lifepartner (12 years as of 1/6/2000!) to Mark, RN
SAHM to daystar (6/23/91) and griffin (7/11/99)
**no-mail on radical mothers & cbirth**
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refuse to be exploited, patronized, or treated as
an inferior, an accessory, an ornament. feel a
solidarity with other womyn when they are. and do
what you can to bring about change.

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