procreate

"If you know you're having a regular menstrual cycle, then essentially you are healthy, your body is willing to be able to procreate because it knows you can grow a human," added Okell.

But my time to procreate was running out.

“We don’t procreate enough to keep our population up,” she said.

Yes, humans, like virtually every life form, have a need to procreate — but in aggregate, not individually.

The pressure to procreate comes from so many directions I’m considering pitching a “Walking Dead” spinoff where the child free are the living and everyone else are zombies trying to turn us.