http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/09/13/making-laws-about-making-babies
Room For Debate is one of my favorite things. Some are good, others better. This one is quite long, but the jist is this- there does need to be more regulation in the fertility business. There are too many clinics doing hack jobs and almost illegal stuff that give the good clinics (like the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics- name drop for my mom!) a bad name.
Also, this made me remember a funny story involving my mom. If you don't know- my mom is the textbook definition of sassy. Even Kassi and I after a couple drinks still don't compare to my mom's sass. But she's hard not to love- she's pretty awesome. Anyway, back to the story. I was due to get a new phone a few years back and I was home for the holidays so she gave me a ride to the local AT&T joint. She hates cell phone companies. She kind of hates cell phones, but knows that she's on the losing end of that one, so she tolerates. So she goes in already annoyed. Then they started trying to give me the old song and dance of changing my plan for this and that for more money. I brushed them off pretty easily. But my mom decided while she was there she wanted to add a line for my dad and get him a phone. And she didn't want to pay anything for it. She told the kid (to paraphrase)- you already take all my money for these plans that I don't even use. You know I don't even use those minutes, right? I don't even turn the phone on. But my husband is almost half dead so I need a phone for emergencies. So you just go and do what you need to do on the computer to make it happen. I work at the hospital, you know. I can make sure you get the best doctors..."
So she thoroughly scared the kid into getting what she wanted. While we're waiting for him to get everything ready I whispered to my mom, "Mom- you work in in vitro. What are you going to do to help that kid? Make him a baby?"
So the moral of the story is- if you ever want something for free, take my mom. She's good at intimidating people. And she can make babies.
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