I understand that it's popular to imagine what others are saying rather than ask for a clarification, but I prefer not to.So, "poor reader" instead of "dishonest." Great.
Then, the question I would bring to those people who made those comments, would be "Why bring it up in the discussion?"OK, a simple acknowledgement of dependence does in on way imply that said dependence is "abhorrent."
Being forced to carry a pregnancy to term, against one's wishes, does not make motherhood a "punishment." And "thing?" That's not even worth addressing.
If not to correlate dependence with expendibility, or birthing a child as some sort of punishment, why bring it to the discussion?
If they want to say it wasn't to highlight some sort of abhorrence/forfeiture of everything or punishment, what was the ".... therefore" they were intent on tagging to the material they were introducing to the discussion?