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I realize this is the edgiest thing I’ve posted here, but my reaction to anti-abortion advocates is “then what?” Let’s say you have a healthy baby, mothered by someone who can’t or won’t raise a baby. What are you actually going to do in order to give that baby a good life? You can’t even take decent care of the children who’re already in the foster system! And yes, I personally wouldn’t want to terminate a viable fetus, but it’s not about me. My feelings don’t matter as much as the experiences of a child who was neglected or abused. If I can’t promise them care, then I don’t have the right to insist on their suffering to make myself feel better.

Someone once told me they wanted the right to suicide “for the same reason [their] homelessness was treated with antidepressants.” A world where they could be guaranteed the conditions to be happy would be better, but the right to suicide if sufficiently unhappy was more achievable in their lifetime. I thought that was the most depressing thing I’d ever heard, but I saw the logic in it.