Spawning in the 6th World, Teen Pregnancies, Prenatal, and other such issues. |
Spawning in the 6th World, Teen Pregnancies, Prenatal, and other such issues. |
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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