Many women don’t want to get pregnant, have babies, or be mothers, and for this, they are considered freakish, incomplete, unfeminine, and even ignorant about their “real” desires. Doctors, for example, sometimes actively resist patient requests for sterilization because they believe that they know better than women themselves do. (That resistance is, however, infused with institutional racism when you consider repeated incidents of women of color being sterilized nonconsensually in hospitals and prisons,
