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post Jan 7 2012, 10:08 PM
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A thought brought up by this post: Pregnancies in the 6th World. I read the bit in Conspiracy Theories about how Humanis has a few "clinics" that will make sure the next generation of metas doesn't survive to breed, but, beyond that, how does the 6th World treat pregnancies?

Let me expand on this:
At present, OB-GYNs are having problems staying in practice, due to the skyrocketing costs of insurance for their specialty. Does that trend continue into the 6th World, in the ever present theme of the "haves and have-nots", meaning that OB-GYNs live in mortal fear of even seeing a SINless (or someone later proven to having a fake SIN) because that could drive their insurance up? Has mid-wifery come back as a profession as a result (at least for the SINless), having been driven out of existence in the US by the medical profession in the early 20th?

Sexual education in the US is a joke at the present, due to hamstringing of teaching actual preventative measures by certain social factors; has that changed? And in which ways? Do teens (especially ork teens) have actual access to reliable contraceptives and education thereof? (especially since Humanis and other anti-meta groups that will see that as a way to keep the metas from breeding out of control).

Right now, there's an entire cultural tradition of consumerism around pregnancy and babies; baby showers, for one example, or the inundation of advertisements, over and above the flood currently deemed as the norm, for baby products? How much worse has that gotten? Cradle to the grave brand loyalty isn't just an idea in the 6th World, it's a way of life--what sort of tricks do the megas pull to increase that market share?

Metatype differences: orks have short, multiple birth pregnancies and elves have long single birth pregnancies; these are both shifts from the "traditional" 9 months that are currently enshrined in pop culture (to the extent that, whoever wrote the news articles on pg 45 of Ghost Cartels forgot that orks have a shorter pregnancy... or, alternatively, to reporters at "Newzbyte", orks aren't really people worth reporting on). How has this changed the expectations and medical knowledge? Are there now "What to Expect When You're Expecting" editions for orks and elves? And what happens when one metatype has kids from another metatype? (such as an ork woman carrying an elf baby, for the most extreme example, or even just an elven woman carrying a human baby; is the pregnancy period based on the mother, or the baby?)

Also, finally, on a game mechanic level, I was thinking that, for the NPC that inspired this question to begin with, to model with the game mechanics the, well, physical and hormonal changes that a pregnant woman has to deal with, over the course of the pregnancy, temporarily giving her the Bi-Polar and Adiposis negative qualities ("One minute I'm the best man in the world, and five minutes later I'm the villain that did this to her!")

Thoughts?
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- bibliophile20   Spawning in the 6th World   Jan 7 2012, 10:08 PM
- - CanRay   My brain hurts. You also forgot the "Baby Fa...   Jan 7 2012, 10:22 PM
|- - bibliophile20   QUOTE (CanRay @ Jan 7 2012, 05:22 PM) My ...   Jan 7 2012, 10:27 PM
|- - CanRay   QUOTE (bibliophile20 @ Jan 7 2012, 06:27 ...   Jan 8 2012, 01:37 AM
|- - Draco18s   QUOTE (CanRay @ Jan 7 2012, 08:37 PM) *Be...   Jan 12 2012, 03:09 PM
- - tehana   My head hurts too. As for birth control right now...   Jan 7 2012, 10:41 PM
- - MK Ultra   Previous editions stated that orks sometimes have ...   Jan 7 2012, 11:00 PM
- - hobgoblin   I wonder if those goblinized orcs, do they have hu...   Jan 7 2012, 11:20 PM
|- - ravensmuse   QUOTE (hobgoblin @ Jan 7 2012, 06:20 PM) ...   Jan 7 2012, 11:44 PM
|- - hobgoblin   QUOTE (ravensmuse @ Jan 8 2012, 12:44 AM)...   Jan 8 2012, 12:10 AM
|- - darthmord   QUOTE (ravensmuse @ Jan 7 2012, 06:44 PM)...   Jan 9 2012, 12:58 AM
- - ravensmuse   From the perspective of someone that has worked an...   Jan 7 2012, 11:42 PM
|- - bibliophile20   @ravensmuse: Good stuff, and exactly what I was as...   Jan 8 2012, 12:03 AM
|- - tehana   QUOTE (bibliophile20 @ Jan 8 2012, 12:03 ...   Jan 8 2012, 01:39 AM
|- - bibliophile20   QUOTE (tehana @ Jan 7 2012, 08:39 PM) I...   Jan 8 2012, 02:14 AM
|- - tehana   QUOTE hmm... that certainly gives new insight into...   Jan 8 2012, 02:22 AM
|- - kzt   QUOTE (tehana @ Jan 7 2012, 07:22 PM) A h...   Jan 8 2012, 02:58 AM
|- - tehana   QUOTE (kzt @ Jan 8 2012, 02:58 AM) Curren...   Jan 8 2012, 03:10 AM
- - CanRay   Would you rather we get immature about it like mos...   Jan 8 2012, 01:45 AM
|- - tehana   QUOTE (CanRay @ Jan 8 2012, 01:45 AM) Wou...   Jan 8 2012, 01:48 AM
- - ChewyGranola   I would imagine that there is a ton of interesting...   Jan 8 2012, 02:01 AM
|- - tehana   QUOTE (ChewyGranola @ Jan 8 2012, 02:01 A...   Jan 8 2012, 02:18 AM
- - CanRay   How are those countries going to pay for said Welf...   Jan 8 2012, 02:05 AM
|- - kzt   QUOTE (CanRay @ Jan 7 2012, 07:05 PM) How...   Jan 8 2012, 02:45 AM
|- - ChewyGranola   QUOTE (CanRay @ Jan 7 2012, 09:05 PM) How...   Jan 8 2012, 02:57 AM
- - CanRay   Well, at least Same-Sex and Poly Relationships are...   Jan 8 2012, 02:19 AM
- - Pepsi Jedi   As a side note, the Orc "Litters" Have g...   Jan 8 2012, 05:37 AM
|- - CanRay   QUOTE (kzt @ Jan 7 2012, 10:45 PM) Same w...   Jan 8 2012, 07:58 AM
- - kzt   People have breed very large draft horse stallions...   Jan 8 2012, 08:01 AM
|- - Pepsi Jedi   QUOTE (kzt @ Jan 8 2012, 03:01 AM) People...   Jan 8 2012, 08:13 AM
|- - tehana   QUOTE (kzt @ Jan 8 2012, 08:01 AM) People...   Jan 8 2012, 03:46 PM
|- - hobgoblin   QUOTE (tehana @ Jan 8 2012, 04:46 PM) The...   Jan 8 2012, 06:36 PM
|- - tehana   QUOTE (hobgoblin @ Jan 8 2012, 07:36 PM) ...   Jan 8 2012, 08:00 PM
- - CanRay   Dwarf Mother and a Troll Father scare me. ...   Jan 8 2012, 08:39 AM
- - CanRay   "Honey, why are we going to a Vet?" ...   Jan 8 2012, 05:19 PM
- - Jazz   6 years old Johnson : "Mommy was a teenager w...   Jan 8 2012, 06:55 PM
|- - CanRay   QUOTE (Jazz @ Jan 8 2012, 02:55 PM) 6 yea...   Jan 8 2012, 07:05 PM
|- - Jazz   QUOTE (CanRay @ Jan 8 2012, 08:05 PM) 6-y...   Jan 8 2012, 07:32 PM
- - CanRay   Hell, I remember hearing stories of dolphins and h...   Jan 8 2012, 08:44 PM
|- - Eimi   QUOTE (CanRay @ Jan 8 2012, 01:44 PM) Hel...   Jan 8 2012, 11:53 PM
||- - hobgoblin   QUOTE (Eimi @ Jan 9 2012, 12:53 AM) Yep. ...   Jan 9 2012, 12:14 AM
|||- - CanRay   QUOTE (hobgoblin @ Jan 8 2012, 08:14 PM) ...   Jan 9 2012, 12:21 AM
||- - tehana   QUOTE (Eimi @ Jan 9 2012, 12:53 AM) Yep. ...   Jan 13 2012, 01:41 PM
||- - Draco18s   QUOTE (Eimi @ Jan 8 2012, 06:53 PM) Yep. ...   Jan 13 2012, 02:53 PM
|- - snowRaven   QUOTE (CanRay @ Jan 8 2012, 09:44 PM) Hel...   Jan 9 2012, 08:04 PM
- - Sengir   Augmentation had the following quite insightful co...   Jan 8 2012, 09:24 PM
|- - Eimi   QUOTE (Sengir @ Jan 8 2012, 02:24 PM) Aug...   Jan 8 2012, 11:55 PM
- - CanRay   "Bah, they can always have more kids anyhow. ...   Jan 8 2012, 11:16 PM
|- - Sengir   QUOTE (CanRay @ Jan 9 2012, 12:16 AM) ...   Jan 9 2012, 03:17 PM
- - hobgoblin   Merry christmas to you to, Canray   Jan 8 2012, 11:35 PM
- - CanRay   QUOTE (hobgoblin @ Jan 8 2012, 07:35 PM) ...   Jan 9 2012, 12:02 AM
- - Mercer   Relevant.   Jan 9 2012, 12:35 AM
- - Pepsi Jedi   Chimps are bad. In some areas they'll break in...   Jan 9 2012, 12:49 AM
- - tehana   I am absolutely terrified of monkeys. For good rea...   Jan 9 2012, 12:55 AM
- - CanRay   Actual quote from a Zombiepocalypse game: "I...   Jan 9 2012, 12:57 AM
- - CanRay   Really sucks to bury your parents at 20 and your s...   Jan 9 2012, 01:06 AM
- - Pepsi Jedi   So here's a question... Bull is in his 40s.....   Jan 9 2012, 01:13 AM
|- - CanRay   QUOTE (Pepsi Jedi @ Jan 8 2012, 09:13 PM)...   Jan 9 2012, 01:28 AM
|- - Pepsi Jedi   QUOTE (CanRay @ Jan 8 2012, 08:28 PM) Str...   Jan 9 2012, 04:16 AM
|- - CanRay   QUOTE (Pepsi Jedi @ Jan 9 2012, 12:16 AM)...   Jan 9 2012, 05:31 AM
- - Pepsi Jedi   Thanks. It's one of the few I don't have b...   Jan 9 2012, 07:06 AM
- - Pepsi Jedi   I trudged the 10 feet over and back. Looked it up....   Jan 9 2012, 07:38 AM
- - Daylen   Humanis probably does it the progressive way. Have...   Jan 9 2012, 05:40 PM
- - Doc Chase   Re: Welfare: I should point out that there is no ...   Jan 9 2012, 06:30 PM
|- - snowRaven   QUOTE (Doc Chase @ Jan 9 2012, 07:30 PM) ...   Jan 9 2012, 08:06 PM
- - Sengir   Well, how dark and lawless the 6th World is has al...   Jan 9 2012, 10:51 PM
|- - Eimi   QUOTE (Sengir @ Jan 9 2012, 03:51 PM) Wel...   Jan 10 2012, 12:34 AM
|- - Sengir   QUOTE (Eimi @ Jan 10 2012, 01:34 AM) More...   Jan 10 2012, 02:42 PM
|- - Eimi   QUOTE (Sengir @ Jan 10 2012, 07:42 AM) I ...   Jan 11 2012, 01:35 AM
|- - Sengir   QUOTE (Eimi @ Jan 11 2012, 02:35 AM) I th...   Jan 12 2012, 02:35 PM
- - CanRay   Less WORKING population means less disposable inco...   Jan 10 2012, 02:54 PM
|- - Doc Chase   QUOTE (CanRay @ Jan 10 2012, 03:54 PM) Le...   Jan 10 2012, 05:34 PM
|- - snowRaven   QUOTE (Doc Chase @ Jan 10 2012, 06:34 PM)...   Jan 12 2012, 12:55 AM
|- - tehana   QUOTE (snowRaven @ Jan 12 2012, 01:55 AM)...   Jan 12 2012, 02:06 AM
|- - hobgoblin   QUOTE (snowRaven @ Jan 12 2012, 01:55 AM)...   Jan 13 2012, 03:03 AM
|- - tehana   QUOTE (hobgoblin @ Jan 13 2012, 04:03 AM)...   Jan 13 2012, 01:45 PM
|- - hobgoblin   QUOTE (tehana @ Jan 13 2012, 02:45 PM) Ye...   Jan 14 2012, 12:57 AM
|- - tehana   QUOTE (hobgoblin @ Jan 14 2012, 01:57 AM)...   Jan 14 2012, 03:00 AM
- - CanRay   There's always the ACHE to live in.   Jan 11 2012, 01:41 AM
|- - Tymeaus Jalynsfein   QUOTE (CanRay @ Jan 10 2012, 06:41 PM) Th...   Jan 11 2012, 03:11 PM
- - CanRay   "For failing to buy a Mitsuhama Motors automo...   Jan 12 2012, 01:00 AM
- - Pepsi Jedi   As usual (( but not always)) the book far surpasse...   Jan 14 2012, 03:29 AM


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