At 8:47 AM -0400 10/16/99, Beth Benoit wrote:
> The reason traditional feminists consider it "anti-female" is its use in
>many cases of yore (today too??) as the
> anesthesia of choice during labor. To reframe your perspective: If a
>woman is suffering during labor, is it okay
> to give her a drug that doesn't alleviate her pain at all, but just makes
>her forget it later? It's a bit of a
> philosophical/ethical conundrum, and I can see how some see it as not
>really addressing the pain of the woman,
> but just figuring that, as long as she doesn't remember it to squawk
>about her painful labor and delivery, who cares?
>
> Beth Benoit
> University of Massachusetts Lowell
>
As has been mentioned, drugs with similar effects (relatives of Rohypnol,
for instance) are used during surgery involving both sexes. I had
something of that nature for a hip implant.
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