...wait what? I thought Ponn Farr required them to either have sex or kill someone? Since when is impregnation required?
How would a male Vulcan even sense whether his swimmers made it to the egg?
Vulcan's are touch telepaths.
He's touching her with his penis.
His life sensing penis.
It's like a tricorder, but quieter and collapsible.
Tuvok took care of himself with a hologram, so I'm not sure how the holodeck tricked his telepathy.
The New Frontier novels had a gay Vulcan (Selar's brother?) wafting on about how irrelevant Pon Farr was to him, that he could just skip it, because lady parts are yucky.
SPOCK: No. No. It is not. We shield it with ritual and customs shrouded in antiquity. You humans have no conception. It strips our minds from us. It brings a madness which rips away our veneer of civilisation. It is the pon farr. The time of mating. There are precedents in nature, Captain. The giant eelbirds of Regulus Five, once each eleven years they must return to the caverns where they hatched. On your Earth, the salmon. They must return to that one stream where they were born, to spawn or die in trying.
It's always been about babies from the beginning.
They take two 7 year old kids and bond them telepathically, and explain to the children either:
a. One day this boy will jizz on your face, and then get back to his important life to do man things.
Or...
b. One day this boy will give you the greatest gift, a baby who you will love and care for.
Spock's quote up there make's it seem like a gay Vulcan can't skip Pon Farr, and that Romulan's also go through Pon Farr as well.
OH!!!
Loop hole!
What if the boy is on the horn, Getting reading to plug his betrothed... But she's already Pregnant? If sensing life in her belly turns off the blood fever, then they could mate out of season, or get artificially inseminated, and rush for a quicky abortion.
Golly.
There's really nothing to stop any one in the Federation from having an abortion whenever they want one?