Career vs. Motherhood

          Why do so many women in the United States have an abortion?  Because a baby is not part of her plan at that time, it will lead her career off track and ruin her chance for a promotion at work.  But now if you work for a big company like Facebook or Apple, you will not have to worry about throwing all of your plans in the garbage to have a family, or worrying about being to old to have children.  At the beginning of this year Facebook began covering up to 20,000 dollars worth of egg freezing for all women on their payroll.  Starting January of 2015 Apple will begin to offer this as another one of their lavish benefits.

 Egg freezing, “is a novel technology in which a woman's eggs are extracted, frozen and stored. Later, when she is ready to become pregnant, the eggs can be thawed, fertilized, and transferred to the uterus as embryos.”  Doctors are saying that freezing women’s eggs is just as influential as birth control and may even become more popular.  These companies see it as a great benefit, but I think it is flawed.  Companies make it seem like a wonderful benefit for their employees, when really they are looking out for their best interests.  They do not want to be bothered by their top female employees having a child, and their family coming first, and not to mention their six to eight weeks out of the office.  But hey, at least these companies are thinking before hand and not making their employees feel like they are forced to have an abortion in order to keep their job.  Seriously, your job should never consume your life.  I know it is difficult to work full time and raise a family.  But is a job more important than a family?  What happens when you are sick, and in the hospital who is going to be there for you, definitely not your job?  So why do so many people care so much about getting the next promotion, instead of having a family?

These two companies are pretty much telling their women employees, here we will make sure you can have a family later, but for now we want you to focus all your time and energy on your job.  Why can’t women be mothers at a normal age, while also being an employed?  I believe what these companies are doing is wrong.  First of all, God made women to have children naturally and within a certain time in their life.  And secondly, these companies are convincing their employees that a family can wait, and the next big promotion is what really matters.   Life is not about how much money you make, or what job you have, it is about the people you share it with.  Robert Byrd once said “I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family.”