We have had a couple of large life rights based developments affect us recently. Our country's Supreme Court just this week struck down legislation that criminalized assisting a suicide. A close personal friend is also undergoing IVF and lost the vast majority of her embryos.
I debated shielding DS3 from these developments, but he asked about them when DH and I were discussing them at dinner. He was horrified at the idea that a doctor could potentially legally take a patient's life, and we had to delve into a discussion of informed consent and guardianship, in which he was reassured to learn that parental consent is required in the treatment of minors. He asked me to promise that I would bring a baseball bat to the doctor's office to protect him in case the doctor didn't listen. I unexpectedly found myself expressing my view on assisted suicide and pre-born rights, a conversation I didn't expect to have with him until at least a few years down the line.
