Shrub Twins: "miracles" - immaculately conceived - space aliens

[UTUSN]

Please, thanking-in-advance-for no flaming on the topic of people who suffer with the difficulty of conceiving.

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http://www.nypost.com/gossip/pagesix/pagesix.htm

FIRST LADY'S 'MIRACLE' TWINS

March 22, 2006 -- FIRST Lady Laura Bush gave birth to twin daughters Jenna and Barbara only after taking powerful fertility drugs, according to a major new book.

In "Laura Bush: An Intimate Portrait of the First Lady" (Random House), best-selling author Ronald Kessler reports that, after trying for more than three years to have children after she married George W. Bush, Laura took clomiphene citrate, which induces ovulation and helps increase egg production and often leads to multiple births.

When that didn't work after a few months, Laura was given a shot of gonadotropin to adjust her hormones to help her conceive.

"Her temperature went up on a Saturday, indicating she was ovulating," Laura's close friend Nancy Weiss told Kessler. "On Monday, she had the shot. Within a few days, they believed she was pregnant. When Laura took the second medication, it worked immediately. So the twins were miracle girls. She obviously was not able to carry children without the hormone adjustment."

Kessler also writes that Laura occasionally sneaks a cigarette with friends. "In 1994 and 1995, she totally quit a lifelong smoking habit," he writes. "When asked by the media, she would honestly say that it was 'difficult' to quit. But after 1995, Laura went back to bumming cigarettes from friends, though never in front of George or her staff." ....

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[valerief]

1. Science works in mysterious ways

[Javaman]

12. Exactly, the miracles of modern science are frequently ignored...

She takes drug after drug to conceive these mutants yet credits it as a "miracle" when she has them.

this kind of ignorance is placed squarely on her shoulders, she like many, refuse to believe that science can make this happen.

If however she gave birth with out the help of science, now that would maybe fall into the statistical "miracle" category.

[AzDar]

2. I'll bet a turkey baster played a role, as well...... n/t

[Untermonkey]

8. I wonder if David Crosby is the real father?

[Gormy Cuss]

17. ....

:spray:

[Bridget Burke]

11. "Ma Bush with a Turkey Baster"

...a long ago image from the "Dear Laura" board on Salon.

Alas, my brain has not been the same since.

[genie_weenie]

Let's destroy all science research

so a terrible evil like this never happens again!


:sarcasm:

[Canuckistanian]

3. Let us pray...

Laura was clearly "blessed from above".

[rkc3]

5. Another nocturnal visit from Gabriel.

[npincus]

4. SCIENCE gave then THEIR miracle, but Chimp denies "miracles" to others

by his opposition to Stem Cell research.

[Stephanie]

6. Has to smoke behind her husband's back? Nice marriage.

[UTUSN]

7. He'll never know, since his reading level doesn't cover the book or paper

[Gidney N Cloyd]

9. And no one can smell it on her?

So he doesn't care about Pickles' health as long as she doesn't embarrass him?
(speaking as an ex-smoker here)

[theHandpuppet]

13. Do you really think they get that close?

No wonder Laura wanted some dogs for company.

[DanCa]

10. Is this what Bush meant by no human animal hybrids in his Sotu address ?

:evilgrin:

[GoldenOldie]

15. Surely there is something about this that is against God's laws.

If God had wanted Laura and George to have children, he would have made them fertile? The fundies are against legal contraceptives, how can they approve un-godly fertility drugs?

[MadHound]

14. Interesting, in light of this article, that gonadotropin is also used

To increase male sperm count. So perhaps it wasn't Laura that was having the problem, but Bush boy was shooting blanks. <http://www.drugs.com/cons/Chorionic_Gonadotropin.html>

[HamdenRice]

16. They could have avoided the expense if only Georgie could get over

his need to be a "back door" kind of guy.