I personally place a very high value, the highest, on caring for children. That is also true for many people in religious traditions, and is often articulated as the justification for opposing contraception or abortion. But I would argue that it’s just because caring for children is so valuable, so transformative, and so morally central that contraception and abortion have to be freely available. When I was forty I unintentionally got pregnant, and decided to have an abortion. It was a difficult decision but it was, thankfully, my decision to make.
