Feminism's Sexual Revolution Ideology Caused Women's Lack of Fertility Education
Source: Hannah Bates. "Feminism Is Why Allison Janney Was Never Taught About Fertility." August 14, 2026. thefederalist.com
The Gist
The author argues that Allison Janney didn't learn about her fertility window because feminist movements since the 1960s shifted sex education and culture to focus on preventing pregnancy and prioritizing careers over motherhood. She blames feminism itself, not general sexism, for this educational gap and its personal consequences.
Conclusion
Feminists themselves, not general misogyny, are culpable for women like Allison Janney and Monica Lewinsky not being taught about their fertility windows.
Premises
- Since the 1960s sexual revolution, feminist culture taught women that personal fulfillment (not childbearing or family) is their core purpose.
- Feminist ideology (via SIECUS, Planned Parenthood influence) reoriented sex education toward preventing pregnancy through contraception rather than teaching about fertility and reproductive timelines.
- Radical feminists promoted abortion and contraception as solutions to pregnancy, further devaluing childbearing and reducing incentive to teach fertility awareness.
- Cultural feminism pushed a 'girlboss' ideal that prioritized career over marriage and motherhood, reinforcing a curriculum focused on avoiding pregnancy rather than understanding fertility.
- Corporations exploited this feminist cultural shift by subsidizing abortion rather than supporting maternity leave, since childless female employees are seen as more profitable.
- The birth rate has declined since the 1960s, correlating with the rise of these feminist ideals, indicating a broad cultural shift away from valuing fertility knowledge.
- Janney's own regret over not having children and instead loving pets as substitutes exemplifies the negative personal consequences of this feminist-driven lack of fertility education.
Assumptions
- Feminism is a monolithic ideology with a single, traceable causal path from the 1960s to today's sex education content.
- Sex education's focus on contraception necessarily excludes or crowds out education about fertility windows.
- Women's fulfillment is properly tied to marriage, childbearing, and family in a way that competes with career or personal autonomy.
- Corporate abortion subsidization policies are motivated primarily by anti-motherhood profit incentives rather than other factors (e.g., healthcare equity, employee choice).
- Janney and Lewinsky's personal anecdotes are representative of a broader systemic educational failure caused by feminist policy influence.
- Correlation between declining birth rates and feminist cultural movements implies causation.
- The traditional Christian framework of chastity and marriage represents the correct or objectively superior teleology for women, against which feminism's approach is being critiqued as a 'lie.'