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A friend once told me approvingly that someone she knew had talked his schizophrenic adult son into having a vasectomy. Though I read “talked into” as “coerced,” I didn’t say anything.
Oh my god, I thought instead, maybe I shouldn’t be a mother. I’d had a break with reality after stopping my antipsychotic 10 years before, frustrated with weight gain. I had returned to taking medication and my mental health had stabilized long before this conversation. But I was now pursuing pregnancy.



