[CLIP] The Transhumanist Age Started With the Contraceptive Pill: Mary Harrington

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“Everyone understands what healthy human functioning looks like, and you go see a doctor when that goes wrong. And otherwise, you leave the doctor alone. And what happened with the contraceptive pill was that that turned on its head, because the pill doesn't fix something which is broken. The pill breaks something which is working normally, and it does so in the name of individual freedom. And that's radical. I mean, we still haven't grasped how radical a shift that was, because once you do that - once you accept in principle, and the entire developed world and great deal of the rest of the world has now accepted in principle, the idea that it's legitimate to break something which is working normally in the interests of human freedom or managing your family - once you accept that in principle, it doesn't really have a limit. I mean, why would it be legitimate to break normal female fertility in the name of personal freedom and not some other aspect of our normal physiology? - Mary Harrington