The author is spot-on. Even people and organizations that are anti-abortion are rarely pro-birth, beyond a carefully-calculated point. The presupposition that everyone is *supposed to be* sterile goes very deep.
I think it’s a quest for control. It’s much more acceptable to have a child (or multiples) through artificial conception than through the natural processes of procreation.
Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva recently announced the ethics of “post-birth abortion”. If the baby was missed with diagnostics or the mother didn’t get tested, it’s OK to kill it due to the inconvenience of the mother or cost of care. And then there are things not always diagnosed at birth or caused by the birth trauma, from cut off blood flow with a cord around the neck or clubbed feet.
How long will it be before the legal challenge to a wrongful birth suit or birth defect lawsuit is the doctor’s insurer suing the parents for wrongful life and not killing the child?