Published: February 17, 2019
The rights and wrongs of having children – they didn’t ask to be born! – is an ethical scab best left unpicked
A man in Mumbai is trying to sue his parents for creating him. It’s not possible for people to ask children for consent before they are created (he calmly explained to the BBC) therefore it’s wrong to have them at all.
I read this on my phone at 3am as my daughter snored beside me, her chicken pox gleaming in the moonlight. She had been retching into a bowl half an hour earlier; before that, screaming with horror-film fear as we attempted to dab at her with calamine lotion. The smell lingers.
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