Pregnancy is a war between mother and child – Suzanne Sadedin – Aeon

Pregnancy is a war between mother and child – Suzanne Sadedin – Aeon

Len Wendt • 6 days ago

This is genuinely the most interesting piece I have read this month. 
In the context of the idealized mother-child relationship, not least the mother-foetus 'relationship' increasingly prevalent among the religious right, this is a molotov cocktail. That the foetus actively endangers the mother in its own self-interest, so is quarantined. Yet it is almost unsurprising: the logical result of paternal genes wanting to get any advantage they can.