I think everyone here will enjoy this.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

The link is to a story in the magazine Lightspeed.

https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/motherhood/?fbclid=IwAR3MgZZXcRTDDvPSLOdeXyR7j3fhrFggKKeTnER0YjsRKZ2QPws1Eoab0CI

[magicarpet]

1. Yes Senator,... forget fatherhood,...

... motherhood is far more exciting. Breast feeding has a sharp learning curve, but with enough time and hormones you will learn the ropes.

[Kali]

2. heh

[Caliman73]

3. That was funny/cool/and important.

Like when Steinem said, "if men could menstruate and women could not' 'menstruation would become an enviable, worthy, masculine event: men would brag about how long and how much'.

Men get to be so cavalier about abortion because pregnancy is not something we will ever have to face.

[Talitha]

4. Thanks for posting this!

I wish it could be so.

[smirkymonkey]

5. Hah! If only!

[erronis]

6. Perfect. If only the senator had to deliver through his urethra (via his dongle)

There was a sci-fi novel about that... let's see if I can find it.

[rickyhall]

7. Repugs never think of consequences

[mountain grammy]

8. Ha. Fantastic!

[keithbvadu2]

9. Or there is option 2.... now that you and your wife have been made 'one' by marriage, as the head of

Or there is option 2.... now that you and your wife have been made 'one' by marriage, as the Biblical head of household you can opt to force your wife to accept the implantation and carry the baby to full term.

[localroger]

10. I think it's implied that the surrogate has to be a blood relative

Relatives by marriage can't serve. Awwwwww.

[keithbvadu2]

11. Details. Details. It's all a fantasy anyway.

It's all a fantasy anyway.

Lots of good hypotheticals in this story.

[calimary]

12. Mag-freakin'-nificent!

Gloria Steinem once said “if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/17/gloria-steinem-activist-interview-memoir-my-life-on-the-road