Nature demonstrates women's dependence through pregnancy; true liberation comes through accepting one's role with devotion.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Room Conversation after Press Conference — July 9, 1975, Chicago 750709R1-CHICAGO [50:27 Minutes] Conv_750709R1-CHICAGO Prabhupāda: ...still avoid that position. [laughter] Where is the independence? Eh? Where is the independence of woman that she has to carry the weight of the pregnancy and the man is free?
What is the answer to this question? Hmm? Answer, Viśakha. Viśakha: A woman is trapped by her body.
Prabhupāda: Hey? Viśakha: She has no choice. By her body she must.
Prabhupāda: So she is already dependent on nature's law that man is free from becoming pregnant and the woman has to take the burden. Then where is the independence, equal right? Equal right means sometimes man may become pregnant, sometimes woman may become pregnant. But why only womans should become pregnant and the man goes away, and she has to take care of the children, beg from government or this and that?
Satsvarūpa: For them, the independence has become contraception. "I don't have to have the child," they say.
Prabhupāda: That means you commit another sinful activity. Then you become dependent on nature. You'll be punished. The punishment goes to you.
In this way... And the whole thing becomes cumbrous. So where is the benefit of equal right, independence? Phalena paricīyate.