Is it okay to hunt while pregnant?

In a short 2007 post on FieldandStream.com that managed to reference Artemis, the Greek goddess of both hunting and childbirth, Kim Hiss profiled three modern-day women who hunted while expecting.

If I’d been slightly less paranoid, I would have taken these posts — what in journalism we’d dismissively call “anecdotes” — as all the permission I needed. Other women have clearly hunted while pregnant. I doubted any of their children were irreparably scarred from the experience.

But my mind flashed forward to 2045. My 30-year-old son is hover-boarding to work at the food supplement factory when his robot doctor calls and tells him he’s got a rare disease and that he probably acquired when his mother went dove hunting in Eastern Maryland at seven-months pregnant.

So I decided to call my doctor. You might be wondering why it took me so long in the first place.