[LMB] there's a word for it OT:

[Raye Johnsen]

--- Agnes Charrel-Berthillier <agnes at charrel.net>
wrote:
>
> Heck, for an ObBujold, what about Cordelia's choice
> to go through very 
> chancy surgery instead of taking the easy way out?

Yes, but Cordelia had already been established as
being baby-hungry.  She'd been bribed out of going for
a promotion on Beta with the promise of a child, she
openly envied women on Barrayar with several children,
and planned to be the mother of at least three.  She
already identified Miles as her beloved son and saw
'the easy way out' as the death of her child.

It would have been exceedingly out-of-character for
her NOT to make that choice.

> Many people are not 
> entirely sane around the subject of reproduction.

*Society* is not entirely sane around the subject of
reproduction.  Talking to anyone who's childless by
choice can open a real floodgate of vitriol, inspired
by the weight of society's expectation for offspring.

Raye

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