In freedumb loving America, (Today, not fifty years ago) it's a huge battle for a woman who has agency, means and knowledge to get sterilized. Doctors put more emphasis on some potential future man wanting children, than the real women standing in front of them demanding the procedure. I started asking to be sterilized in my early 20's and kept on asking until almost fourty. And even then, I had to get a waver from my insurance to get the procedure done at a non-catholic hospital, because that's not done there. I live in a city of almost a million people, not out in the boondocks. If birth control was 100 percent foolproof from ages 14 - 50, half of the children born today would not be unplanned.
Image being a woman who is uninformed, uninsured and unsure of her rights. Hell, birth control is still under attack across the country through legislative and judicial attacks. A pharmacist can choose not give you pills because his religious rights are being violated by doing so. Now multiply that by 1000 for women in Guadamala, Iraq or the Philippines.
A man in his early or mid 20's can have a simple outpatient procedure, under local anesthetic in doctors offices or family planning clinics. Nobody puts some future spouse's needs above his. And nobody yells in his face that he's a murder as he goes into a clinic. But for some reason it's imperative to most men that they sling their sperm around and barely give two shits about the ensuing people that created. How many dead-beat dads and weekend-only fathers are there in the world? How many men endlessly bitch about the paltry sums of child support they have to pay?
It would be lovely if at puberty, everyone had their reproductive materials cryogenically frozen, then got sterilized and had to get a parenting license later in life. But can any of us trust the society most of us feel is crushing us, to make fair, non-discriminatory decisions about who gets to reproduce? It smacks of eugenics and is against everything people who believe in bodily autonomy believe in.
Add to that religion, hormones, family, social pressure, babies as relationship bandaids or relationship traps, babies as some sort of adulthood participation trophy.... it's a giant nope all around.
But yes, way too many people are squirting out crotch fruit that have no business even raising a goldfish. I don't see anyway to fix that.
As we slide into neofeudalism and end-stage capitalism, there needs to be a huge underclass to sustain the elites. They are going to keep us hungry, sick, poor, stupid and desperate so we don't rise up and have a global millionaire/ billionaire bbq. Someone needs to still keep the lawn moved, jets fueled, the yacht serviced, the couture sown, and the mansions clean. And of course, the rabble surpressed, and the police and army filled.
