You wanna live? Be convenient.

First it was the fertile, 30-something St. Lawrences that made 5 embryos with IVF to save for later as a "project" to "insure" themselves against possible future infertility.  They have no idea if they will ever "use" their frozen offspring.  The St. Lawrences just like to know their 5 children are there, waiting.  You know, just in case it is ever convenient enough to fit kids into their busy lifestyle.

Next are the couples that kill one twin, not for medical reasons, but because 2 children at the same time is just too inconvenient.  From the National Post:

Like so many other couples these days, the Toronto-area business executive and her husband put off having children for years as they built successful careers. Both parents were in their 40s — and their first son just over a year old — when this spring the woman became pregnant a second time. Seven weeks in, an ultrasound revealed the Burlington, Ont., resident was carrying twins. “It came as a complete shock,” said the mother, who asked not to be named. “We’re both career people. If we were going to have three children two years apart, someone else was going to be raising our kids. ... All of a sudden our lives as we know them and as we like to lead them, are not going to happen.”

She soon discovered another option: Doctors could “reduce” the pregnancy from twins to a singleton through a little-known procedure that eliminates selected fetuses — and has become increasingly common in the past two decades amid a boom in the number of multiple pregnancies....

The Burlington woman, however, says she has no regrets, and believes the option should be openly available to all parents expecting twins.

“I’m absolutely sure I did the right thing,” she said. “I had read some online forums, people were speaking of grieving, feeling a sense of loss. I didn’t feel any of that. Not that I’m a cruel, bitter person ... I just didn’t feel I would be able to care for (twins) in a way that I wanted to.”

Me, me, me.  I want.  Me, me, me.  Be what I want or die.

Decades ago abortion, then IVF, entered the public realm.  In a blink of an eye, children have become things that must be convenient.  They must complete our vision for the way WE want OUR lives.  If not, then they must die or spend the rest of their lives frozen in an IVF clinic.

We need to wake up and see that "reproductive rights" is a just a euphemistic way of saying to the next generation, "You wanna live? Be convenient."