Lesbian moms both on birth certificate!
Mar 22, 2003 Feminism/Politics
A Mississippi judge on Wednesday ordered the state to issue a birth certificate for a 5-year-old boy who was born in Mississippi and adopted by a lesbian couple from another state. Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund filed a lawsuit against the state in 2001 for refusing to issue a birth certificate listing the child’s two parents, leaving him without any legal documentation of his name, the names of his parents, or the date and place of his birth. “This is a very significant victory,” said Greg Nevins, the staff attorney in Lambda Legal’s Atlanta-based Southern regional office who handled the case. “This child was punished because his parents are gay. A birth certificate is a basic and important document for every child, and today’s ruling means this young boy should finally have his.”
Can you tell I’m writing fillers? That’s why I’m linking to news stories. Isn’t this one nice?
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I’m right; My stupid RE was wrong
Mar 22, 2003 Infertility
WebMD - Miscarriages Linked to Heart Disease
After adjusting for other known heart disease risk factors, such as high blood pressure and the mother’s age, the researchers found that women with three or more early pregnancy losses were more than twice as likely to develop heart disease as women who had never had a miscarriage.
See my RE kept saying that there was nothing wrong with me except that I wasn’t getting and staying pregnant. I knew — I KNEW — that infertility was just a symptom of a whole system problem; that was so obvious to me. Now I actually don’t have the antibodies mentioned later in the article but I would still argue that losing a bunch of pregnancies is not the sign of a healthy body working at its optimum level. I’m also not insulin resistant (another risk factor for heart disease) but just because they haven’t found my particular answer doesn’t mean there isn’t one.
Ok, I’m going to put down the donut down and go for a run.
(Not really. I don’t have a donut and I’m too busy today to run but I am running tomorrow and I will likely not have any donuts before I go.)
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Home office hell
Mar 21, 2003 Writing
My home office is in our 3rd bedroom along with Noah’s desk and art supplies, a dog cage that’s three times the size that Peanut needs (we were told she would get 3 times as big as she has), and Brett’s dresser. And an enormous pile of Brett’s clothes that may be clean or may be dirty; one never knows. Work related things include a large computer desk, two office chairs (one for Noah to spin around on while he chats with me), a bookshelf with my editing and pregnancy books, a file cabinet and a trash can.
My desk is covered with stuff. There’s the phone and my rolodex and my calendar and the printer and the CD burner and the CDs. There is also various projects belongint to Noah, books I’m reading while waiting for web pages to load (dial up connection), piles of papers to be sorted and sundry items (coffee cups, hand sanitzer, broken earphones) that have found their way here and forgotten to go home again. Read the rest of this entry »
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Sleep deprived
Mar 20, 2003 Uncategorized
My life must be preparing me for our hopeful baby because I couldn’t sleep last night and was waking often. That’ll teach me to listen to NPR before bed. I’m trying not to think about the war other than to send our a prayer now and then because it sends me into a panic and there’s nothing I can do.
Sheri has assigned me a lot of work and that’s keeping me nice and busy. I’m learning a lot more about practical organizational type, writer-ly things. I’m grateful that I’m not a perfectionist because I’m having to be happy with “good enough” an awful lot these days.
Sheri and I were going over some editorial stuff last night and she started telling me that she knows it will be extremely hard for me to keep up this pace when the baby arrives and that she’s been thinking about other things I can do for the magazine. It all sounds interesting and I feel very flexible about doing whatever needs to be done. Hopefully in the next few months she’ll know better about where they’ll need me to go. It’s awfully nice of her to thinking about my personal life when assigning stories; I notice she does that for a lot of people. I really don’t know how she keeps track of us all in her head! I think she has one of those datebook organizer brains because the amount of information she has filed away is really amazing and on every imaginable subject.
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Two signs
Mar 19, 2003 Uncategorized
I’m going to make two signs for my front yard: NO WAR and WE SUPPORT OUR TROOPS.
I don’t know why these things are supposed to be opposites. Every peace-loving person I know is totally supportive of every military person’s wish to remain safe and to come home quickly.
