Pregnant soldiers leaving Iraq

iVillage Member
Registered: 05-18-2004
Pregnant soldiers leaving Iraq
73
Thu, 06-17-2004 - 4:14pm
Women in the military....well at least they are good for morale.


http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/holnus/003200406170322.htm

Pregnant soldiers leaving Iraq, US "unaware of numbers"

Washington, June 17. (PTI): Many U.S. women soldiers in Iraq are leaving the frontline and returning home, but the Pentagon does not want to reveal their numbers as the "embarrassing" statistic includes unwed mothers, media reported on Wednesday.

"U.S. Central Command is not tracking the number of troops who must leave the Iraq war theatre due to pregnancy, prompting military advocates to charge that the Pentagon wants to keep secret what could be an embarrassing statistic," The Washington Times said in a report.

The paper said that there have been anecdotal reports of unmarried women soldiers becoming pregnant in Iraq. One military police unit reported losing three women for that reason.

Lynndie England, the 21-year-old photographed holding a leash attached to a naked Iraqi prisoner, became pregnant during an affair with another soldier at the Abu Ghraib prison compound in Iraq, it said.

But overall numbers are hard to come by. "We are definitely not tracking it," said a spokesman for U.S. Central Command, which runs the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"I have been attending operations briefings for two years, and I don't think I have heard once that pregnancy has come up."

As in the case of England, said the paper, pregnancies can be embarrassing to the military. In May 2003, the Marine Corps was forced to bring a Marine back home after she gave birth on a Navy warship in the Persian Gulf. She told superiors that she did not know she was pregnant.

Pages

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-23-2003
Tue, 07-13-2004 - 6:40pm

It bothers me when we become so married to our position, left or right, that we can't even see the merits of the other side and will argue a point in the ground regardless of how senseless it is. This country continues to be polarized even though we all seem to have the same goals for humanity. God bless.


It was the guidelines I was talking about, btw.


iVillage Member
Registered: 05-18-2004
Wed, 07-14-2004 - 8:46am
"how can we subject everyone to a single inflexible standard (or guideline)?"

It has been done for all of civilization. We are just undoing it now to make everyone "equal".

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 07-14-2004 - 9:20am
Treehugger, I was just talking about the tendency of left and right in ALL issues. This one - women in the battlefield is just one great example. It's almost as if I can look into a crystal ball and tell what each person is going to say, regardless of what it is about. If the feminist speaks, she will say, let the women die with the men, and if we have to lose the war to do it, well, it was just the men's fault for losing focus. If the conservative speaks, she will say, women have no business in these situations - after all, who's going to look after the home -we aren't able to do that kind of work anyway. It's so tired. Why can't both sides say, this is more complicated than black or white, there are other factors that need to be considered besides my general worldview. That's all.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-23-2003
Wed, 07-14-2004 - 10:08am

Why can't both sides say, this is more complicated than black or white, there are other factors that need to be considered besides my general worldview.


That's why I asked.


iVillage Member
Registered: 03-23-2003
Wed, 07-14-2004 - 10:19am

It has been done for all of civilization. We are just undoing it now to make everyone "equal".


I can't even begin to respond to this statement at the moment.


iVillage Member
Registered: 05-18-2004
Wed, 07-14-2004 - 10:34am
"equal" was in quotes....

miss me? :)

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-23-2003
Wed, 07-14-2004 - 10:49am

"equal" was in quotes....


That's your response?


iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 07-14-2004 - 11:06am

"I can't see how giving everyone the opportunity to be equal will cause the 'decline' of humanity.

________________________________________________

"If you don't stand up for something, you'll lie down for anything." -- B

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-23-2003
Wed, 07-14-2004 - 11:33am


iVillage Member
Registered: 03-18-2000
Wed, 07-14-2004 - 7:48pm

 


Photobucket&nbs

Pages