A planet where motherhood, at least in many official circles, is look upon as an oddity. This planet, too, has a UN, like ours, and at a recent hearing before a UN committee, this happened, according to C-Fam's report:
Before the [UN's] CEDAW committee, the Russian Federation delegation highlighted a new two-year program of the Ministry of Health that focused on the prevention of abortion and the protection of life. The delegation was pleased to report to the committee that for the first time in decades, the birth rate was now exceeding the abortion rate and that the “declining number of abortions was also decreasing women’s mortality rates after birth or abortion.”
Nevertheless, the committee expressed concern that the government was promoting motherhood and women being able to stay at home with their newborn children, instead of facilitating their quick return to the workforce. The Cuban expert warned of the negative sexual stereotypes that could result if women were only seen as “good mothers, good wives, and caretakers, while men were seen as the economic providers.”
It's funny that strange planet also has a country called Cuba, just like ours. It is, apparently, a paradise of workers without mothers.
Looks like the Cuban apparatchik is worried that a gov't program that decreases womens' (and babies') mortality might have the unintended side-effect of increasing the Russian people's traditional morality.
BTW, does anyone know if the Ministry of Health program that's worrying the Cuban has any input from Russian Christians?
Posted by: Benighted Savage | July 30, 2010 at 09:48 PM