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The article I’m reading lists multiple causes of grief, but the major betrayal of my body is missing from the list: infertility. It doesn’t get talked about very much, though it affects more than 10 percent of couples. It’s rarely mentioned in church. It’s taboo on Mother’s Day. Even Hallmark doesn’t profit from it. I’ve never seen an “I’m-thinking-about-you-in-this-shitty-time-of-infertility” card. Three and a half years ago I had a miscarriage and I haven’t been able to get pregnant since.
In a country – the U.S. – where the culture is structured to encourage parenting in every conceivable way (forgive the pun), where influential religious forces and powerful political forces conspire to create for cisgender, male-partnered, fertile women in particular a pro-birth stew of disinformation about reproduction, disincentives against the use of contraception and limited access to abortion, this is a radical choice.
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