Inspired by comments I found insensitive, at best, and ugly and judgmental, at worst, I’m going to talk about infertility, hoping to rise above a caricature that bordered on selfish, empty-wombed harpy.
I think it’s fair to say that many women spend our early years of sexual activity trying to not get pregnant. We do so without knowing if we even have the ability to get pregnant. That is certainly a plus about birth control being available in the U.S. It’s only once we’re in our 30s that some of us learn that, well, maybe we spent all that money on the Pill and could just have easily have focused solely on disease prevention through condoms. We learn that we’re infertile. Or that we are having "fertility issues."
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