"I understand their fears--it's valid. Nearly twenty years without any births plus all the deaths from the epidemic? The numbers are disturbing, though we're far from non-viability. Still, we've lost an entire generation."
Noah pulled at a particularly stubborn weed. "Of course, if they'd be more free with the serum both here and abroad there would be less of a reason to have the lottery."
He glanced over to Kathy. "I had problems with the lottery when it first came about. I thought the laws concerning it were unnecessarily repressive and at least a hundred steps back from the rights we'd had before. Most people, I think, would've been glad to have children, married or not, gay or straight. But this insistence on the outdated idea that only married couples should be allowed to receive the serum, and then to go tossing people together without regard for personality, sexuality or any other -alities and then to expect them to bear and raise excessive numbers of children is, well, insane."