{"id":861,"date":"2008-05-29T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=861"},"modified":"2008-05-29T14:35:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T18:35:00","slug":"fertility-semantics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/05\/29\/fertility-semantics\/","title":{"rendered":"Fertility Semantics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SD74bf-ECYI\/AAAAAAAABew\/fCBHmt4gVmY\/s1600-h\/images.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SD74bf-ECYI\/AAAAAAAABew\/fCBHmt4gVmY\/s200\/images.jpeg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Ok ok, confession contagious.  While I PROMISE that this site will not become Girl with Pen: Bridging Feminism and Fertility, I&#8217;ve had an interesting week and without getting into the subtext (which you will no doubt figure out) I must throw this question out there to all you gals out there who I <span style=\"font-style: italic\">know<\/span> have gone down the fertility road:  Why do they refer to it as being treated for &#8220;infertility&#8221; when really it&#8217;s just expediting one&#8217;s fertility?  I mean, doesn&#8217;t &#8220;in-&#8221; means &#8220;un&#8221;?  Words hold psychological and ontological power here, people, and methinks the medical establishment might consider redefining its terms.  But then, I would think that, being an English major and all.  Rant over.  Back to being UNconfessional now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;But I&#8217;m curious.  What do others think? Rhetorical question perhaps, but is this why folks turn to midwives?  Do they use different language over there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok ok, confession contagious. While I PROMISE that this site will not become Girl with Pen: Bridging Feminism and Fertility, I&#8217;ve had an interesting week and without getting into the subtext (which you will no doubt figure out) I must throw this question out there to all you gals out there who I know have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861","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\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}