One’s control over one’s own body is one of the most fundamental rights a person can have.
Autonomy over their body. Autonomy over their actions. Autonomy over the choice of when, or if, they have a child.
There are important conversations to be had around how or when a man should be able to exercise such choices.
Should a man be legally compelled to finance a child he never wanted?
Should a man be able to opt out of parenthood post-conception?
These are difficult questions to answer and require time to discuss and better understand.
But what doesn’t require any further discussion, is what happens if a woman uses a man’s sperm to impregnate herself, without his knowledge, and against his will?
Such a thing must surely be illegal, and yet, in most states, and many cases, it is not.
And yes, you may well be reaching for the “well that is extremely rare” reaction, when you hear about such a situation…
Until you find out that one in ten American men have had a partner try to get themselves pregnant, when they did not want them too.
And that is terrifying.
Slowly the world is catching up in protecting women from these kind of malevolent actions, ‘stealthing’ for example, which is the removal of a condom without permission, is widely being made illegal, as it should be.
But what about a product that allows a woman to fish a used condom out of a bin, and use the contents to impregnate herself?
Well, that is not illegal, and certainly should be.
So, let’s take a look at a product and a set of adverts I wish didn’t exist, but sadly do…
Let me show you, ‘The Impregnator’…
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Stats on Reproductive Coercion: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31808711/
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