Such a socially (if not scientifically) distant possible world is not a good basis for comparison in cases involving pregnancy, lactation, menopause, and so on. Better to think about what would be the case if pregnant bodies navigated not a “man’s world”—that is, the actual world, with its hetero-patriarchal and transphobic structures—but rather a world that recognized everybody’s claims to have equal moral purchase. And in this world, significantly more effort would be made to accommodate those tasked with bearing the next generation of human beings, I would argue.
