Gestation cannot be assimilated to labor because no state can compel it

Evidence

A truly socialist ethic—one that seeks justice without restraining liberty, one that imposes responsibilities on individuals but without abolishing individual freedom—will find itself most uncomfortable with problems posed by woman’s condition. It is impossible to simply assimilate gestation to a job or service like military service. A deeper breach is created in a woman’s life by requiring her to have children than by regulating citizens’ occupations: no state has ever dared institute compulsory coitus. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 147

Categorization

• QUESTION: Why has no state ever instituted compulsory coitus, and what does this asymmetry reveal about the limits of sovereign power over the body?