Chris

Via bbbsg on LJ – If babies were all considered disabled:

Glossing over labor and delivery, let's consider what happens when you've got a baby. It can't walk! It can't eat food! It's disabled, poor thing. It needs special nutritional supplements that can only be prescribed by a doctor. It also needs a special device called a stroller which costs maybe five or ten thousand dollars. You'd apply through Medicare to get one. Maybe they won't approve one for use outside the home! There's stroller stores, especially online, but wow, would you buy a Bugaboo stroller that cost $5000 without getting to see it first and whether it would be good for your situation, or would fit in your car or whether you could lift it up? By the time your prescription for the "stroller" had been approved by doctors and you'd proved through several insurance company and social worker home visits that you indeed had a baby, and by the time the stroller arrived, your baby could walk. Oh, you could rent a basic stroller from a medical supply store for 10 bucks a day, but it would be MADE OF LEAD.

Originally posted at Xtinian Thoughts.  Comment here or there.