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Get your rosary off my ovaries.

Via Atrios:

New federal guidelines ask all females capable of conceiving a baby to treat themselves -- and to be treated by the health care system -- as pre-pregnant, regardless of whether they plan to get pregnant anytime soon.



Lord love a duck. I can see it now. Having a glass of merlot with dinner, and some "concerned citizen" comes up to you with a crooked finger in your face harping "How dare you drink alcohol with your meal! You're prime breeding age!"

Heaven forfend you pick up a pack of cigarettes along with a package of tampons.

Can it be far off that stores refuse to sell us certain items if we're within the child-bearing years? I don't smoke -- or even drink all that often -- yet suddenly I feel the urge for a bottle of cheap whiskey and a cigar.

-Desi