I'm sure others judged the fact that we conceived right away, but our doctor recommended it and I was already 33.
It was in Vermont, before the others arrived, that, by our retrospective calculations, we conceived our first child, unintentionally but with no regrets.
But if we conceive of the good of individuals as including items such as being respected as an independent agent, having a right to make decisions for oneself, or having one's autonomy not infringed, then the issue of whether the agent is better off after being paternalised is partly a normative matter.
The question is not whether to struggle -- to work daily for the preservation and recognition of our humanity -- but how we conceive of that struggle and find meaning in it.
Climate disruption will require that we change not only how we live but how we conceive of our selves; to recognise and confront a gap between our inner lives - including our habits and supposition about how the world will evolve - and the sharply divergent reality that climate science now presents to us".
But when we conceive of homophobia as a boogeyman responsible for only the most obvious and egregious horrors, we miss the finer, nuanced, harder-to-see -- and therefore in some ways more dangerous -- moments that are also homophobic (however "polite" they might seem) and have very real consequences.
But since we will never have the child that we conceived, we are still emotionally attached and appreciate being recognized as a mother.
"We conceived the exhibition idea long before Brexit but that has increased our drive to too look beyond the capital.
Instead, we conceived another baby naturally.
"The story we conceived is so big," said Kasanoff.
