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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Very glad I live in a society where women have the choice (and methods) to never have children. We still have a lot of work to do to get the point where it's not just assumed that every woman will or wants to be a broodmare. [/quote]

+1000! I'm a 30yo woman who is doing my PhD and I have long decided that I am childfree by choice. My grandmother didn't have the same choices I have- she was illiterate and coerced into marriage and bore 7 children- with no pain meds. Her life sucked and I wish more people can realize just how recent it has been in human history for a woman to exercise her reproductive choices. Unless of course you're in Alabama. [/quote]

I have an Ivy League PhD and 3 kids. You sound clueless.[/quote]

Why does PP sound clueless? Women having control over their reproductive choices is a very recent development, even in the West. It's good that women can choose for themselves if  and when they want children.[/quote]

NP. I think calling women who want to have children 'broodmares' is about as offensive as thinking every woman should have a child. I think both PPs are kind of right. PP's grandmother did not have a lot of choices and probably did have a difficult life, but it wasn't the summation of her existence and the way PP talks about her seems cold and inhumane.

The ability to bear children is part of what it means to be a woman, no matter where you end up on your decision scale. We should be lifting up all women's choices, not tearing them down. [/quote]

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