@CHCB
I agree, the "right" to be a parent is an interesting one, cf that story about the American transsexual who recently conceived. (I'd post the link but I'm not sure I dare type 'transsexual' into the search engine while I'm at work...)

I get very tetchy when people start confusing legal rights with biological capabilities in that fashion. (e.g., in the story above, "No, there is nothing legal to prevent you trying to conceive, but you relinquished your biological 'right' to do so when you had the operation to become a man") As for the rest of them, "Yes, it may be within your biological limits to have eight kids by different fathers. It's just fucking selfish of you to inflict them on the rest of us."

EDIT: Nice sig, by the way. (That is a great song.)
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 17 Apr 2008, 16:38, Reply)