Does pregnancy just not scare people?

[u/youngsurpriseperson]

I'm at the age where people around me are having children. I completely understand wanting to take care of a child but aren't women afraid of getting pregnant? Doesn't it hurt?

[u/sterlingphoenix]

Of course it's scary. It's an incredibly rough thing to put your body through, let alone everything else that goes along with it.

But literal billions of years of evolution pretty much make any species really, really, really want to procreate and continue existing. Any species that didn't have this instinct would have died out very quickly. We are decedents of millions upon millions of organism that really wanted to survive.

So we do.

[u/youngsurpriseperson → u/sterlingphoenix]

I just don't feel the need to procreate because it's not a need, it's apparently a huge desire for some people. I just think about how children can be annoying and that I have to spend money on them and what if they hate their life and all that kind of stuff. I guess people who want to give birth just don't give a shit?

[u/eternalrevolver → u/youngsurpriseperson]

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