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- Dec 13, 2016
I feel like this is what happens when you look purely at the numbers and not the bigger picture. Yes, the statistics say there isn't much fertility dropoff, but what they don't say is, like you said, pregnancy being harder on the body.That Adam dude's videos are often really misleading. He did one that made the social media rounds recently that was basically saying there's not really much fertility dropoff for women after 35 and women have PLENTY of time to have kids after the midpoint of their 30s.
Which he then supported with a pile of stats that added up to the misleading picture that it's almost as easy to get pregnant at 40 as at 35. What he never mentioned is that first, pregnancy is way harder on the body after 35 and you need a lot more screening and attention to avoid becoming a maternal death statistic, and second, the reason you should try to ascertain your fertility before age 35 is that the success rate of IVF and other fertility treatments tanks after 35, with each year representing a major change to your percentage chance to have a successful IVF cycle. Oh, and you literally can't get IVF with your own fresh-sourced eggs after age 43, so any celebrity women you see doing that are using donor or frozen eggs.
But hey, anything to keep women thinking that they can keep wasting time with men like Adam and his ilk, instead of looking for a life partner who will contribute value and build something lasting over decades of a relationship. Ignore your biological clock, ladies, this man knows best -- and when it's from a leftist, it's not mansplaining any more, that's just science.
This is a thing I hate about SJWs in general, they'll rattle off a bunch of statistics about shit like this without realizing that the numbers mean nothing without context in and of themselves.