No. It's from 'The Estate of Marriage' (1522) http://www.1215.org/lawnotes/misc/marriage/martin-luther-estate-of-marriage.pdf …
I know the context. It's there next to the rest of it. Women are made to have children. Its better for them to do that & die than not do it.
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Obviously because they thrive better if they obey God's command to be fruitful & if it actually kills them, doesn't matter, coz heaven.
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God or not, heaven or not, probably better to do something fulfilling even if it kills you, than not and live a long, less-fulfilling life.
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But he didn't say 'Better to do something fulfilling even if kills you rather than live long, less-fulfilling life.'
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He said having babies was the purpose for which women exist.
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Um. If women aren't going to bear human children, I don't know who else is going to do it. So, like, survival of species? Biology?
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So, you read it as demeaning, I read it as kind of an obvious fact. To each their own.
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Yeah. I choose not to have child after child until I wear myself out & die. And my job & fulfilment is as a writer.
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I don't know how you read an argument against celibacy as advocating for women to "have tons of children until they die from it".
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