I couldn't agree more. Everyone should base whether or not a whole class of people are fit to be parents based on their limited exposure to one or two anecotal examples. I think that is a fabulous idea.

There are some Latino people down the street from me and their kids don't seem happy not being raised like ordinary white people, they don't speak English well enough, so I don't think they should have the right to have children. There are also some Jews whose kids don't who are being robbed of being part of the majority, those poor kids should be given to a nice Christian couple. (C'mon, this is a Christian nation after all. It is unfair to the children to raise them in a non-Christian home!) Actually, I think all families should fit a certain mold, they should only look and act a certain way, otherwise they get their kids taken from them by the government. After all, all those words about freedom in the constitution don't apply to people that I don't like!

Jessica, sorry for whatever experience made you hate gay people so much, but I don't advocate that people like you shouldn't have the righ to breed so I'd appreciate if you leave me and my family alone. To each their own.

If I'm a fertility doctor do I have the right to say I won't inseminate Jewish women if I say that it is against my religious beliefs? Or what if I meet a couple and I don't like them because they're pagans? Can I refuse to help them have children?

Seriously, it isn't the doctor's place to decide who to treat based on their own personal prejudices.

What's up with all the slut references? I'm sorry, but if this is supposed to be a feminist blog putting down Paris Hilton for her reputation as a "skank" just seems...odd.

I'll agree that Paris is indeed cheap but not because she's "easy"-- it's because she's superficial and vapid. I can't stand her because she's famous for being famous without any real personal accomplishments to stand on, but it has nothing to do with how often or with whom she has sex.

It's especially odd that you make such big deal out of Paris Hilton's reputation having frequent pre-marital right after a post about women getting murdered in Iraq for having sex before marriage.

Once again in an attempt to marginalize gay couples right-wingers have targeted other families as well. Their definition of "natural family" also excludes any children raised by anyone other than their biological parents. I hope this serves as a wake up call to "non-traditional" families everywhere-- stepfamilies, families with adopted children, single parents, or anyone raising children who aren't biologically related to them. This is about you too, they're saying that your family is "unnatural" too.

Once again in an attempt to marginalize gay couples right-wingers have targeted other families as well. Their definition of "natural family" also excludes any children raised by anyone other than their biological parents. I hope this serves as a wake up call to "non-traditional" families everywhere-- stepfamilies, families with adopted children, single parents, or anyone raising children who aren't biologically related to them. This is about you too, they're saying that your family is "unnatural" too.

Once again in an attempt to marginalize gay couples right-wingers have targeted other families as well. Their definition of "natural family" also excludes any children raised by anyone other than their biological parents. I hope this serves as a wake up call to "non-traditional" families everywhere-- stepfamilies, families with adopted children, single parents, or anyone raising children who aren't biologically related to them. This is about you too, they're saying that your family is "unnatural" too.

I grew up in a family that was 1/2 from Pittsburgh, 1/2 from Cleveland. The rivalry between my two families was legendary-- driven mostly by the die-hard Steelers/Browns female fans. So I don't get the idea that only men like sports, but I think that class is probably a pretty big part of this. In working class families in working class neighborhoods it is far more common for women to know sports, especially football, because it is a communal activity wrapped up in regional pride.

This Sunday my wife and I are hosting a Super Bowl party, complete with terrible towels and enough screaming at the tv to make the dogs hide under the dining room table. Yes, we are lesbians, but the mix of people we are hosting-- straight and gay men, straight and lesbian women-- does represent that perception and reality aren't always playing on the same team.

Is asking patients' sexual orientation standard practice in some health plans? I can't recall ever being asked to answer that question, but maybe Beiler's health plan has a different policy.

No, they don't ask directly but it's standard on intake forms to inquire the following-- "are you sexually active, if yes, what birth control do you use?"

How do you think lesbians answer? I personally write "yes" and "n/a, female partner." (Once I wrote "n/a" without an explanation but the doctor asked how one prevents pregnancy without some form of birth control. So it comes up one way or another.)

So, yeah, odds are it's in her medical history.

As for the suing issue, I'm not sure I would sue as much as I would pitch a fit but I can understand why someone would.