Is it true that Abortion doesn't exist in D&D?
My DM says that it doesn't exist and that's ridiculous. In a setting with magic far more women would be making choices that benefit themselves at the expense of their children's lives. If you can burn a person to death with a magic fireball I guarantee you can burn an infant to death with some magic poison or kill it with magic tongs or something.
Look, I'm not one to be rude, even on Veeky Forums, but your DM is retarded and can't even research.
Whose realm is more magical, yours or his?
Here's a quick check list to verify if the setting has abortions
A: do they have forks long enough to reach a uterus
B: are there whores?
C: is the setting dark enough to allow it (pretty much anything under 1000% noble bright)
If you answered yes to all these questions congratulations! There's abortions
Forreal though, punch a pregnant woman hard enough, throw her down a staircase, drink too much alcohol. There's a million ways to end a pregnancy.
Of course, if it's acceptable to dispose of unwanted newborns than the potential danger of most of these abortions is probably outweighed by the choice to do that.
Forgot to add that you don't even need a fork cuz "if there's a will there's a way" and that way is a sharp kick to the womb. Because guess what if you're sucking dick for money a pocket knife abotion isn't too far of a leap
>900% noblebright
>women are murdering their own children because those children might burden them
>things that didn't happen
>My DM says that it doesn't exist and that's ridiculous.
Maybe he wanted to avoid autistic political arguments in his game?
even outside all the violent, unsavory options listed above, it's unreasonable in a fantasy setting that there wouldn't be any witch, sorcerer, or other individual who couldn't muster up a curse spell to render an individual barren. Given how much many cultures care about succession, genealogy, and maintaining the family line, especially amongst nobility, I would consider it a go-to curse to punish nobles who double-cross spellcasters and the like. Hell, it would be a go-to for hags of all sorts to make people miserable, even!
Honestly it might be difficult or too expensive to access for common folk, and might generally be used to afflict or harm, but it should by all good sense exist.