Do Women Forfeit Their Chances for Motherhood By Waiting Too Long To Have Children?
April 16, 2002

When the successful, married, financially secure, career woman age 40 is told she cannot give birth to a child regardless of what she spends, the grief and bitterness come upon her like a flood. Has biology changed? Was she not warned? What about all the celebrity mothers in their 40’s?

Biology has not changed and although you hear of women giving birth over the age of 40, only about 2 percent of babies are born to women over 40.

I believe there is a gross misunderstanding in the minds of women concerning childbirth. Beginning in middle school girls are taught about contraception and abortions. The so called “emergency” morning after pill is provided in Teen Plus Clinics usually located near the high school where girls can get birth control devices, pills or even a Depo Provera shot so they can be sexually active, but not pregnant. This is without parental involvement, mind you.

Then women are told by Planned Parenthood and the National Organization for Women, among others, that having birth control and having a choice is reproductive freedom. But nothing could be farther from the truth. Women who abort may lose the next baby and the one after that, so to be fed the line that they can have it all; career, husband, and a family whenever they want one is painfully deceiving. Women today have been indoctrinated with birth control, population control, and abortion. Now that many of them in their late thirties or early forties can’t get pregnant, they feel betrayed.

Think of how women in third world countries feel that have been subjected to forced abortions and sterilization. Sometimes abortions are required just so a country can meet its quota. I attended the U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China and witnessed first hand the One Child Per Family Policy in China promoted by International Planned Parenthood and supported by the U.S. delegation. Can you imagine not being allowed to have a brother or a sister?

And did you know, that as I write this article, Japan is crying out for more babies? Alarmed by the statistics of the plunging birthrate, the government sees a shrinking workforce followed by economic problems. They are calling for a “structural reform in life-style”; fewer careers and more babies.

Is that what it will take in America for us to wake up and realize that children are a blessing from God and that this reproductive choice mentality that promises health and youthfulness neglects motherhood? God created biology. It hasn’t changed in thousands of years. Women’s ovaries age faster than the rest of her body and regardless of what advanced medical science promises, childbearing success rates decline significantly as women age. The biological clock waits for no one.