Actual reproductive choice in women is a recent development. Effective and safe reproductive choice is recent, yes; but women have been using a variety of methods (pessaries, sponges, herbal contraceptives, abortifacients) for thousands of years. The fact that they've been doing so suggests that the idea of a universal compulsion to have children is nonsense, of course.
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Date: 2015-06-18 11:23 am (UTC)Effective and safe reproductive choice is recent, yes; but women have been using a variety of methods (pessaries, sponges, herbal contraceptives, abortifacients) for thousands of years. The fact that they've been doing so suggests that the idea of a universal compulsion to have children is nonsense, of course.