Pregnancy is the one condition that makes autonomy impossible. It binds one life to another. It requires sacrifice, submission to the needs of another life that isn’t ours. And so it must be destroyed exactly because it exposes the lie that lives in the heart of absolute autonomy.

If you take a second to notice you will see that the arguments for abortion rarely rely on biology anymore. we know now more than ever, that a child in the womb is a living, developing human organism. This knowledge is of extreme inconvenience, so it’s been ignored, instead the argument now shifts and is focused solely on authority: who has the right to decide? And in the religion of autonomy the answer is always the same.

Me.

The autonomous decide, and the dependents now must justify their existence, and the right to their own lives. To be bound and dependent on another is now treated as a form of violation. Responsibility is harm. Sacrifice is a loss of freedom. All the things that gave our lives meaning beyond the hedonistic pursuit of self, are labeled as moral evils.

A woman that depends on her husband is an idiot.

A fetus that depends on the mother that does not want it is a burden.

A child that depends on its mother and father is an inconvenience to the pursuit of self

On and on…

In this framework obligation and dependency are now moral intolerances. To be bound to another without making the choice is treated as a violent moral offense.

And abortion fits perfectly into this hellish landscape. Notice how abortion is not framed or treated as an act of mercy, instead it is an assertion of authority. The right that is being protected is not compassion, it is control, and power, even at the expense of the life of another human being.

And this is why, abortion is not only permitted, but it is celebrated. It is hailed as the greatest achievement in the life of the modern woman, it is the core issue for millions of women, it is a true cry of freedom, the liberation that all oppressed women so deeply desired and needed. Abortion is a moral good. Abortion is good.

Abortion must be declared good precisely because it feels wrong at a deeper level than any argument. It violates every single intuition we all have, and so we must be told on and on, forced into believing, forced to accept that abortion is good.