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I know it makes me a "bad millennial/gen z" but yes I do.

My whole generation seems absolutely horrified of pregnancy. They all frame it as an individual thing, but I think there's a larger cultural anxiety there, because it's not just, "Eh, I don't to, it's not for me," — they use words like revolted, terrified. I think it's one part the medicalization of pregnancy in the modern west, and another part the tropes that are popular in media (for example, death by childbirth was much less common in medieval times than fantasy stories depict)