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Just read a story where magical Character A has their power taken away before it is revealed that they are pregnant with a magical baby that could kill them if the baby goes to term. But Character A is determined to have the baby, so drama and the baby is born and will-they-make-it?. They both do, and then the character that took away A's power comes back and says they're now worthy because they were so selfless w/ the baby.
Which isn't anything terrible, though I'm pretty sure having a baby does not magically make you a better person, but my real problem was the conversation at the end, which implied that if A hadn't tried to carry the baby as long as possible, it would have confirmed they were a bad person. I don't like the idea that it was only in confirming that they valued their unborn child's life more than their own they were redeemed. (A was bad for other things, but I wouldn't have added that to the tally.) And I really don't like the assumption ALL the characters had in the story that the unborn baby was intrinsically more valuable than the mother.
Which isn't anything terrible, though I'm pretty sure having a baby does not magically make you a better person, but my real problem was the conversation at the end, which implied that if A hadn't tried to carry the baby as long as possible, it would have confirmed they were a bad person. I don't like the idea that it was only in confirming that they valued their unborn child's life more than their own they were redeemed. (A was bad for other things, but I wouldn't have added that to the tally.) And I really don't like the assumption ALL the characters had in the story that the unborn baby was intrinsically more valuable than the mother.