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From what I've seen — and please correct me if this is changing — the left has a very real problem with acknowledging female fertility issues. They've framed the "biological clock" issue much like Better Living Through Chemistry with no real interest in the state of the field
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
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
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
crapshoots?
Here is a thread I've not seen anyone write: the professional women in SF who shop for sperm donors (mostly lesbians, but some straight single women) ain't rolling up 2 the clinic like, "show me the Big Book o' Underachievers!," whatever they say publicly about hereditary traits.
When you're in the home birth yoga class with your partner & women are comparing notes on their baby's donor, it's like "my boy is from a four-time olympic gold medalist & ivy league doctor, & I'm trying to get the same guy for my girl." At least, that's my experience.
It seems to be the fate of most successful and worthwhile social movements that once they are fashionable enough, they get taken over by people who don't really understand the goal and who will eventually run them to the ground.
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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.
