{"id":1577,"date":"2009-03-27T08:41:59","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T13:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1577"},"modified":"2009-03-27T08:41:59","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T13:41:59","slug":"quick-hit-accidentally-pregnant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2009\/03\/27\/quick-hit-accidentally-pregnant\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Hit: Accidentally Pregnant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/tbn1.google.com\/images?q=tbn:Rxq1jIElZ1cV5M:http:\/\/www.totallybroadband.com\/livehappily\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/pregnant-belly.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Over at Broadsheet this week, Amy Benfer has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/mwt\/broadsheet\/feature\/2009\/03\/26\/self_magazine_on_single_mothers\/\">a nice little post on &#8220;accidental&#8221; pregnancy<\/a> in which she writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>About half of American women will have an accidental pregnancy before age 45. So while we like to think of accidental pregnancy as a rare and catastrophic event that happens only to women who take extraordinary sexual risks, it&#8217;s actually rather common. Nevertheless most stories about accidental pregnancy focus on teenage girls whom many people feel entitled to automatically dismiss as unfit mothers. Thus I was initially excited to see that this month&#8217;s Self magazine leads with a feature that puts a face on those who constitute the vast majority of unplanned pregnancies, one with the subhead: &#8220;Forget Jamie Lynn Spears and Bristol. The new face of accidental pregnancy looks like &#8230; you.&#8221; But while it starts out by allegedly showing that even &#8220;good girls&#8221; can get knocked up, it ends up reinforcing some very old stereotypes about what the choices women make say about them.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>About 50 percent of unplanned pregnancies end in abortion,\u00c2\u00a0 but the article does not contain a single quote from a woman who had one.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hmm&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contemporaryfamilies.org\">CCF f<\/a>or the heads up.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Broadsheet this week, Amy Benfer has a nice little post on &#8220;accidental&#8221; pregnancy in which she writes: About half of American women will have an accidental pregnancy before age 45. So while we like to think of accidental pregnancy as a rare and catastrophic event that happens only to women who take extraordinary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21111],"tags":[3109,2079],"class_list":["post-1577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quick-hits","tag-motherhood","tag-reproductive-justice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}