alt Hacker News"Fertility rate" is a bit confusing because it implies some biological reason like microplastic in the balls or something. Like the inability to have kids rather the the choice to not break your body, or to spawn in more suffering into the world which this seems to be about.
> "Fertility rate" is a bit confusing
It's just a term of art with a longstanding specific meaning, just like any other term of art. No one even passingly familiar with the topic would be confused by it here.