Years ago I thought I could “have it all”: I’d get settled in my career and have my first baby in my mid-thirties. I had it all planned, right down to the month. Imagine my surprise when the baby did not arrive on schedule! www.ruthinstitute.org/CampaignProcess
Young women still think they can “have it all.” The Media Establishment sells this lie. The Business Establishment profits from it: they get years of the lives of young women, eager to prove themselves. And the
![I wonder how many of them realize how unlikely childbirth after 40 really is?](https://i0.wp.com/calendarforlife.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/contraception3-285w.jpg?resize=285%2C300&ssl=1)
A recent study of IVF in Australia looked at the chance of a live birth for initiated cycles. Don’t look at the bogus “pregnancy rate:” IVF pregnancies are 4-5 times more likely to end in stillbirth.
Government Establishment encourages women to work and to not marry.
Many of these young ladies are planning on In Vitro Fertilization to have their mid-life babies. But they’re in for a surprise. This week’s article shows how unlikely they are to succeed. And our newest brochure, “Children and Donor Conception” shows the risks the children of IVF face.
Look at these eager young faces. These young ladies have high hopes for their lives. The image from the Huffington Post staff meeting created an immediate backlash for editor Liz Heron’s rhetorical question: “Notice anything about this Huffington Post editors’ meeting?”
They believe that by landing this great job, they are set. Once they are established in their careers, then and only then, can they think seriously about marriage and motherhood. They do not realize that they are giving themselves over to careers during their peak fertility years, with the expectation that somehow, someday, they can “have it all.”
They are being sold a cynical lie.