The only ethical obligation we have to pregnant women is to treat them as intelligent, thinking human beings who are completely capable of making their own difficult decisions without other people deciding what is important for them to know or not know, what is important for them to consider.

The pro-life faction has such pretty rhetoric, such an idyllic, pastoral understanding of the nature of life and living. But truly, it isn’t as simple as “choosing life”. It’s a question of navigating a vast web of interconnected outcomes, and figuring out which path is the path we want to travel. Neither having an abortion nor having a child is without its consequences.