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More_Than_The_Moon t1_ja98boj wrote

I never understood why she and Harry had to have sex to have a child. They were both knowingly hurting their spouses. I could never escape the idea that they wanted to break their spouses. By that time in history, insemination was possible. I loved the book BTW,

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ExtraAgressiveHugger t1_ja9cqcp wrote

I think the daughter was conceived in the 60s or 70s. Insemination might have been possible but probably wasn’t very reliable.

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tsh87 t1_ja9ejzo wrote

Or accepted.

There was a ton of backlash when fertility treatments like insemination and IVF were first announced. Tons of people, mostly religious types, saying "that's not how children should be conceived," calling them "test tube babies" etc.

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Level-Somewhere-8961 OP t1_ja9p9zt wrote

Yah I didn’t buy the whole not trusting a doctor or people wondering why they had to adopt, but mayyybeeee a different time.

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LegalAssassin13 t1_jaae3ax wrote

Well, then they run the risk of something getting into the gossip rags.

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nevadasurfer t1_ja9td0j wrote

There would be a record of her getting pregnant that way. People would find out

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RedBeardtongue t1_jaa7vm3 wrote

Wasn't that addressed in the book? I think I remember them having privacy concerns. They didn't want their marriage to be outed as a farce if it came to light that they'd used medical intervention to have a biological child.

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