Mild rant. I don't want kids, but now im at that age where all my stepsisters, sister and close friend all have kids now. My last childless stepsister is pregnant and they want to facetime the gender reveal. I just can't feign my excitement for this shit anymore. oh yay, another white american baby, how special. I guess she really just made the mistake of having a kid after the people i care about most(sister and close friend) already had kids so i just don't care anymore(in addition to not being close with my stepsisters, our parents married and we were all young adults basically).
But this got me thinking about how people talk about their pregnancies. The selfless reason is bringing a life into the world(lol) but i literally can't think of another selfless reason. They will want the kid to be like them, they will try to raise it like them, they probably also are thinking about how a child can care for them when they are older. Two people think they are really great and made something super special and im fucking over it.
Agreed, but consent is irrelevant here, you may as well be an anti-abortion rights activist with that kind of argument.
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My point wasn't about the time, popular opinion or legality of abortions, it was on the idea that you can assert that a 'soul' (assuming the existence of such a thing) can or cannot 'consent' to being brought into the world. Imo, it's a perversion of the concept of consent, and creates huge metaphysical complications that I think even the Jesuits wouldn't want to argue about.