From: kcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Keith "Justified And Ancient" Cochran)
Subject: Re: Who's redefining pregnancy?
Summary: Suxanne is one again stretching the boundries of lunacy... 
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Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 03:31:03 GMT

In article <1992Dec10.001953.20506@noao.edu> forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) writes:
>From article <144@blue.cis.pitt.edu>, by sgast+@pitt.edu (Susan Garvin):
>> In article <5DEC92.15182479@vax.clarku.edu> hsims@vax.clarku.edu writes:
>>#In a previous article, forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) wrote:
>>## 
>>##The fact is, that doctors simply can't _detect_ pregnancy before implantation.

Hey, Mark!  When is the earliest any sort of pregnancy test will give you a
reliable result?

>>##That is a far site different from "don't consider".   If any of those same
>>##doctors were to schedule a woman of child-bearing age for an x-ray, he/she
>>##would not fail to ask if she had had sex since her last period, thereby
>>##possibly being pregnant.   
>>#
>>#I've had to have X-rays several times over the past few years because my body 
>>#has this nasty habit of producing positive results on TB tests.  I am a women 
>>#of childbearing age.  The doctors and X-ray technicians always ask "Are you 
>>#pregnant", and when I say no they go ahead with the X-ray.  No pregnancy test 
>>#or anything.  And they have never asked questions about my sex life before 
>>#doing an X-ray.

Suxanne visits some weird doctors, you know?

>> 
>> Heather, this is Suzanne that you're addressing.  
>
>Yeah, so watch out!

You wouldn't want to get hit by a ton of illogic, would you?

>
>;-) for the humor impaired.

(Ditto.)

>
>> She thinks that it's
>> perfectly normal for a dentist to ask if you're a virgin or not,
>
>I never suggested he asked.  I did suggest he was affronted by her
>lifestyle being so clean next to his.   And perhaps he did ask about
>her lifestyle in the course of scheduling her for an x-ray anyway.

So now you're claiming that he (a gay man) asked her out, she turned him
down, he found out she was a virgin, and _that's_ when he decided to
"inject her virginal carcass with AIDS as she lay on his floor"?

You've completly flipped out, Suxanne.  Totally.

>
>> so it's not surprising that she thinks that other doctors quiz you about
>> your sex life, too.  
>
>Hey, it certainly happens, and not just for x-rays.

Let me guess.  Your doctor is so caring that if you fall and sprain your 
ankle, the *first* thing he asks you about is if you've had sex since your
last period?  Does he then offer to check your mucus?

> 
>> For the record, though, I've had several x-rays in the past few years,
>> too.  I've been asked "Is there any way that you could be pregnant?",
>> but never have I been asked "Have you had sex since your last period?".

The last time I had one, there was this big sign on the door going into the
changing room:  "If there is _any_ chance you might be pregnant, tell the
technician _now_".

>Just so you don't continue in your ignorance, there _are_ doctors that
>ask that exact question in those exact words, rather than leave it to
>your untrained medical judgement as to whether you could be pregnant or
>not. When a doctor asked me that exact question, the curiosity killed me,
>and I asked him _why_ he wanted to know if we were concerned about my lungs.
>He then explained it was because he was scheduling me for an x-ray.

You should sell that to ABC for a mini-series, Suxanne.
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