July 2007
Talking about male pregnancy
Reproductive technology has opened up a world of choices in how we go about becoming parents, but one part of the process that it hasn't changed is the fact that at some point a child has be carried by a woman. But what if it didn't have to be that way? What if both women and men could become pregnant? It's just that question writer Jen Graves asks in her piece "Getting Patrick Pregnant" for Seattle's The Stranger. In it, she examines the science that might make it possible for a man to carry a child -- but even more interestingly, she also explores the human side of this discussion by asking Patrick, her partner, whether he's willing to have their baby. Along the way, she gets the kind of reactions you'd expect... and a few that you probably wouldn't.