Contraception IS available on every street corner. On campuses, for free. On Amazon, nine cents for a condom, bought in bulk. In every drugstore. All over. It IS available. But people's bodies want children. They WANT TO GET PREGNANT, both of them. The man and the woman both. This is utterly normal.

Only three weeks later, in the cold light of day, does it look different to them.

Oh. As to the woman's life being basically about her kid or kids, and her not getting as far at the office. It being hard to have a "career" and kids. You vastly, vastly, exaggerate the interest and profitability of most jobs and "futures."

ACB is a very unusual woman. She is not going to be a model for most women. That's like saying "I want to be a physicist and teach at Princeton and be famous, because I want to be like Albert Einstein. He seemed to have a pretty good time."

Contraception IS available on every street corner. On campuses, for free. On Amazon, nine cents for a condom, bought in bulk. In every drugstore. All over. It IS available. But people's bodies want children. They WANT TO GET PREGNANT, both of them. The man and the woman both. This is utterly normal.

Only three weeks later, in the cold light of day, does it look different to them.

Oh. As to the woman's life being basically about her kid or kids, and her not getting as far at the office. It being hard to have a "career" and kids. You vastly, vastly, exaggerate the interest and profitability of most jobs and "futures."

ACB is a very unusual woman. She is not going to be a model for most women. That's like saying I want to be a physicist and teach at Princeton and be famous, because I want to be like Albert Einstein. He seemed to have a pretty good time.

Contraception IS available on every street corner. On campuses, for free. On Amazon, nine cents for a condom, bought in bulk. In every drugstore. All over. It IS available. But people's bodies want children. They WANT TO GET PREGNANT, both of them. The man and the woman both. This is utterly normal.

Only three weeks later, in the cold light of day, does it look different to them.