First, the claim is that infertility is 98.9% as healthy as full health; this part isnโt much based on tradeoffs. Which is frustrating, since tradeoffs are more useful for the kind of questions we care about.
But even then, Iโm not sure most infertile people would take a 1% chance of death to restore their fertility. Another way of putting it: if the maternal death rate in the US jumped from 28โ100,000 to 1,000โ100,000 (a level only Sierra Leone hits) how many people would decide not to have kids?
First, the claim is that infertility is 98.9% as healthy as full health; this part isnโt much based on tradeoffs. Which is frustrating, since tradeoffs are more useful for the kind of questions we care about.
But even then, Iโm not sure most infertile people would take a 1% chance of death to restore their fertility. Another way of putting it: if the maternal death rate in the US jumped from 28โ100,000 to 1,000โ100,000 (a level only Sierra Leone hits) how many people would decide not to have kids?