In the game of Trump-era feminism, the level up from abstinence is sterilization. Yet more than anything, the women who undergo the procedure are communicating risk aversion and dooming their party.

Leftist women’s pledges to abstain from sex, termed the “4B movement,” seemed sterile enough. It is a refusal to date, copulate, marry, or parent, all in the name of resistance to ideology. Of course, there is the bit in there about protecting oneself from unwanted consequences that loom as irreversible. Now, women are moving forward with sterilization appointments and pushing them as the only remaining option.