We are not "living longer"

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58. True, unless we're women

Advances in obstetric medicine means that a lot more of us are living through childbirth, something that used to kill many of us off before we got out of our 20s. Going through old graveyards (as well as articles on archaeological digs) can be a sobering experience. The lot of a woman was to be pregnant every year, producing as many children as she could. Even without fatal complications of pregnancy and childbirth, this had a massive negative effect on her health. Add a little periodic malnutrition and waves of various plagues and you wonder how any of our ancestresses survived to 30.

Advanced obstetrics, contraception and abortion are all under attack by the farthest right patriarchal fundies. Both FLDS and Quiverful women routinely go through pregnancy and childbirth without medical care and both are firmly against contraception.