The Activista

Childless women of all ages are under assault in America.   If you’re a teenager, you’re pushed toward motherhood by “moralizers” bent on denying you information about, and access to, birth control.  If you’re a women 35 and older, you’ve been subject to a decade of news stories set to the ominous sound of a ticking clock and bent on creating fertility anxiety—if you wait, you’ll be too late.  And lately the anxiety peddlers have been expanding their targeted danger zone to include women in their late 20s and early 30s. “Women lose 90 per cent of ‘eggs’ by 30,” ABC news and others informed us recently, and the message was more of the same: get busy!