Woman's Facebook rant on 'fertility shaming' strikes nerve

ANN ARBOR, MI -- A Michigan woman posted something on Facebook that has triggered a national debate. It talks about people who ask the young and the childless about their plans.

There's uproar online after freelance writer Emily Bingham posted a Facebook rant begging everyone to stop the reproductive plan questions. The post has been shared more than 48,000 times.

"Even if it feels like not a big deal to you, it might be a really big deal to the person that you're asking," she said.

Bingham posted a random ultrasound image she found on the Internet to catch everyone' attention. Then she wrote: "This is just a friendly P.S.A. that people's reproductive and procreative plans and decisions are none of your business."

She later said the post was inspired after her friend "had to go through a stressful and heart-wrenching year of fertility treatments before conceiving her son, only to begin fielding, 'When's baby No. 2 coming?!' questions within a month of his birth.'"

"I couldn't believe it," said Bingham. "It's none of your business whether or not there is Baby 2 or Baby 3 or if there is only one baby."

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"Anytime somebody asks me if I'm going to have kids I'm just like, one day you're going to ask that to the wrong girl who's really struggling and it's going to be hurtful to them and I hate that," she said. "I hate it, so stop asking me!"

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This issue also hits close to home to Bingham who at 33 years old is sick of being asked when she is going to have a baby

"When they find out that I have never been married and I don't have children then they the next question is do you want to?" she said. "And it is either insinuated or explicitly said that the clock is ticking."

Bingham strongly believes no matter who you are, it is a personal question that no one has the right to ask

She writes, "Bottom line: whether you are a wanna-be grandparent or a well-intentioned friend or family member or a nosy neighbor, it's absolutely none of your business."

Bingham says she had no idea the post would catch on so strongly. But says it's pretty clear it hit a nerve.