MOTHER’S LITTLE HELPER:

NANCY HASS has a really good, eye-opening, and admirably non-sensationalist article in the September Elle (“Whose Life Is It, Anyway?” p. 430), about couples who conceive via egg donation, and who don’t tell their children the truth about their genetic roots. It’s not online as of this writing, but if (like the Rat) you’re interested in the myriad ways our fear of death leads us to punish women for getting older, get it at the newsstand.

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