With so many arguments about what people choose to do with their own bodies, it always seems to come down to a choice between one side or the other and neither side being the optimal decision.

Abortion is one example. Our dear foes on the side of forced pregnancy never want to do anything that might actually give a woman a reason to choose motherhood, like say making parenting while poor easier. They just want to ban abortion, full stop, no additional measures needed. I don’t think anyone should be forced to be pregnant against their will, but I also think we should make it easier for women who want to be mothers but can’t because of money or education or whatever, to choose motherhood.

The other one is the right to die. Now I come under a bit of fire on this one, because people who I dearly love would be the first ones into the soylent green lines. Lauredhel at Hoyden About Town has done some really good writing about how if PWD were given the tools and access they really need to have a good life, then they might be less likely to want to die. But instead they are left to wallow in filth while we ignore them. But I still want the right, if all else fails, to choose my own ending. I don’t think it should be better care for PWD or the right to die, I think it should be both.

I think that