I had the option to have a nurse come to my home because I stayed only one day at the hospital after delivery. I knew how I felt; I wanted her to assess my baby.
She spent the whole time asking what birth control I planned to use. Finally I told her I hadn’t ever had an unplanned pregnancy; that what contraception I might use wasn’t her concern; and that the visit wasn’t what I had looked for at all.
Funny thing was, a month later the nurse sent me and my husband a letter of apology: she had realized that my husband’s mother was a doctor she used to work with in the Family Practice Clinic at the hospital and truly respected, and that when she went out on visits she usually saw a different class of people (i.e. the uneducated and underclass) and that what she had been taught to discuss wasn’t appropriate with our kind of people.
This might be the only time in my life I’ve been “our kind of people.”
Now “our kind of people” probably come in for extra suspicion. White, married, educated, church-going, self-supporting...and we’re replicating...making little conservatives...what freaky Nazi thing do we do when no one’s looking...
A dangerous mentality, that. There is no respect of persons with God.
Why is it that busybodies never consider that people who have nothing to hide are averse to intrusion, precisely because a busybody's judgment is suspect at best.
Those who have the least ability or interest in discerning good from evil are the same types who set themselves as judges over others, with the power of thug government behind them.
That's not even taking into account the control freaks with malicious intent.