conversely, also lots more ways to address infertility.
That's actually one more reason I lean toward a hysterectomy being more likely. If the Red Room feels so strongly (in this canon) that infertility is key for their operatives that they deliberately induce it, I'd expect them to take a draconian approach to it - no matter how advanced the tech a Widow can bribe or steal or con her way into acquiring, it's going to be a lot harder to replace an organ on the sly (involving major abdominal surgery) than to undo a relatively minor amount of damage to part of an organ (as with a tubal).
An external piece of tech, along the lines of the uterine replicator in the Vorkosigan series, would probably be the easiest solution for a Widow in that case; I'm sure there are plenty of shady supervillain-esque organisations willing to create an embryo from your stem cell/ovary/DNA sample for the right price, and then you just have to hide the replicator somewhere innocuous for nine months. I don't think such a thing has ever come up, though, even in the comics? I'm not super-familiar with them, but nobody has even mentioned it in all the discussions lately.
the comics the version of the Super Soldier serum they gave to Natasha directly caused her infertility
I really prefer this explanation! It's so much more interesting to me if the serum itself resulted in infertility (and Natasha isn't much fussed), not least because it gives me lots of delicious fic ideas about Steve's possible infertility... But then, I also totally dig the suggestion I saw in a meta discussion about 1940s eugenics notions: that sterilisation was included as a part of the 'deal' that resulted in Steve receiving the serum! Because I have a whole lot of complicated feelings about infertility and voluntary sterility and "voluntary" sterility and societal notions of what people are supposed to want and value. It's like catnip to me, but it's so rarely explored in fic beyond the most shallow and typical approaches, alas.
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That's actually one more reason I lean toward a hysterectomy being more likely. If the Red Room feels so strongly (in this canon) that infertility is key for their operatives that they deliberately induce it, I'd expect them to take a draconian approach to it - no matter how advanced the tech a Widow can bribe or steal or con her way into acquiring, it's going to be a lot harder to replace an organ on the sly (involving major abdominal surgery) than to undo a relatively minor amount of damage to part of an organ (as with a tubal).
An external piece of tech, along the lines of the uterine replicator in the Vorkosigan series, would probably be the easiest solution for a Widow in that case; I'm sure there are plenty of shady supervillain-esque organisations willing to create an embryo from your stem cell/ovary/DNA sample for the right price, and then you just have to hide the replicator somewhere innocuous for nine months. I don't think such a thing has ever come up, though, even in the comics? I'm not super-familiar with them, but nobody has even mentioned it in all the discussions lately.
the comics the version of the Super Soldier serum they gave to Natasha directly caused her infertility
I really prefer this explanation! It's so much more interesting to me if the serum itself resulted in infertility (and Natasha isn't much fussed), not least because it gives me lots of delicious fic ideas about Steve's possible infertility... But then, I also totally dig the suggestion I saw in a meta discussion about 1940s eugenics notions: that sterilisation was included as a part of the 'deal' that resulted in Steve receiving the serum! Because I have a whole lot of complicated feelings about infertility and voluntary sterility and "voluntary" sterility and societal notions of what people are supposed to want and value. It's like catnip to me, but it's so rarely explored in fic beyond the most shallow and typical approaches, alas.