Stargate Atlantis Flashfiction

'and bears down with the strength of her mother, her mother's mother, all the Athosian women who have come before, who have dared to love and birth their children in a galaxy scarred by risk.'
That IS absolutely amazing. My main reason for deciding not to birth a child is that I consider THIS world unsafe and unfitting.

I think that last part awoke some unnoticed-till-now cavities in my teeth, they ache....