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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who cares? As long as they're happy, I'm happy for them. I don't care what story they want to put out there about conception. It's their business.[/quote]  +1  Why would this drive you crazy, OP?[/quote]

Because it gives young woman false hopes. And the wrong medical information.   [/quote]

+1. It’s literally disinformation, with truly devastating consequences. [/quote]

As someone who got accidentally pregnant at 44 after just one careless night in my life, I can attest that the opposite misinformation - how women over 35/40 are more or less infertile - can be just as devastating. My OB shared with me that the largest amount of early-term medical abortions that her office performs is on women who are already moms and over the age of 35....[/quote]
44 is not 48. I’ve yet to see a single person on here say they got naturally or accidentally pregnant at 48. [/quote]

I haven't but I know people who had accidental pregnancies at 46 and 47 so 48 does not sound farfetched to me. Also, I know of women back a couple generations or more in my family who had many kids, the last of whom were conceived in their mid to late 40s. Those women didn't have access to IVF. Back then, people would talk about advanced maternal age but there was less judgment because generally it was women who were already mothers (so not becoming mothers for the first time at 45 or 46) and also with safe abortion so much less available to most women and women having far fewer choices when it came to life choices, people found it less objectionable than they do now.

The thing that makes people angry about older mothers now is their choice to wait to have children. It's viewed as unnatural not because conception at an older age is unheard of but because these are women who have chosen to delay motherhood for whatever reason. Many people are deeply uncomfortable with the idea of women having that kind of agency over motherhood.[/quote]

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