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take: as long as feminism doesn't tackle exploitation issues re: e.g. surrogacy, it's a Lisa Frank movement. Female equivalent of Peter Pan syndrome. I'm not holding my breath, bc immature women who neglect themselves to stick to the party line will need surrogates.
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The reality: egg freezing and IVF are still very expensive crapshoots, women tend to hit a fertility cliff and the age at which that occurs is variable, and "pregnancy as a service" ignores a whole hormonal cascade honed over our entire evolutionary history to prevent abandonment
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FWIW, during its heyday the religious right played into the narrative of a widely-accessible medicalized fertility boon by creating panic re: a surplus of never-to-be-born embryos. In reality, most IVF cycles fail, and rising costs are a greater barrier than disinterest
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The right *also* played into this system in a roundabout way by pointing to adoption as an easy alternative to abortion w/o acknowledging that the trauma of the former might be greater than the trauma of the latter. This inadvertently preempted justifiable concerns re: surrogacy
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How do you see this acknowledgement as a threat to a left-feminist agenda?
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Because "women can have it all" has been in practice reduced to "women *should* have successful careers, and they should have them *first.*" But this just doesn't work if you can't consistently buy your way out of diminished fertility.
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I think you're absolutely right. Just the last couple of days,
@StefanMolyneux tweeted some facts about this and people (women and white knights) went absolutely mad. Was both entertaining and sad to watch. - End of conversation
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Uncharitably, the left is pointedly ignorant of biology. Also, if the model is "assume each person is a median H. Sapiens until individually proven otherwise", then demography is a non-issue ("people grow on trees"). Charitably, this problem falls beyond the discounting cliff.
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