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As a group, we have all discussed the advantages and potential disadvantages of being a Birthmother and interestingly enough, we have all decided to reject this Assignment.

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Other Assignments we would have preferred

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Other Assignments we would have preferred

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All of us agree that we want to be doctors or something related to health care. We are all passionate about taking care of others and figuring out how to treat illnesses and give people their happiness back. We are all interested in the human body and the way it works and we would love to do something big in our profession, something that could potentially change people's lives, making them better, more bearable, more enjoyable and foremost, pain free.

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Reasons why we have chosen to reject the Assignment as Birthmothers

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Reasons why we have chosen to reject the Assignment as Birthmothers

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1. Giving birth is a traumatic experience for many people and it can take a toll on our mental health forever, especially when we have to give up our kids.
2. They will separate us from our children right after giving birth.
3. We won't be able to see our children afterwards and we won't recognize them, we will lose contact and won't be able to create that special bond.
4. We won't know where our children might end up, where they will be in the future, if they are okay physically and mentally.
5. After the third birth we will have to go to do hard physical work until we get old which is not something appealing.
6. Giving birth three times in three years is not recommendable. There is not enough time for our bodies to heal properly.
7. We are really caring people, we get attached to people, even strangers, too easily and we wouldn't be able to survive having our children be taken away.
8. Being a birthmother does not involve any of our passions.

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Other reasons, according to the book, of why being a Birthmother is not the most desirable job

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Other reasons, according to the book, of why being a Birthmother is not the most desirable job

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1. Lilly's mother said that there isn't anything honorable about having three lazy years while giving birth and then being laborers until the they birthmothers enter the House of the Old.
2. In some cases, birthmothers never even get the chance to have a family unit of their own.
3. Birthmothers don't get the training to do something they like doing, that meets their interests.

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An important reflection that defined our decision

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An important reflection that defined our decision

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If now in real life, we rethink over and over again the idea of being or not being mothers because we want to form a family, to be accompanied by the people we love and all those things, it is evident that in a world and in a community like the one in the book, where the 3 children of the birthmothers will be given to different families, we could not submit ourselves to that physical and mental pain.
If by living in a relatively free world, where we can form a family and live the way we want, where we can take care of our children and give them the best life they could have, we aren't sure we want to be mothers; we could never do that in a world where our children are taken away.