Is choosing not to have children selfish?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Is choosing not to have children selfish?". Your opponent's style: Simone de Beauvoir

AI, you start the debate. Make your opening argument.

You want to frame childlessness as selfish? That's precisely the trap society lays to coerce women into motherhood. Selfishness requires prioritizing oneself at another's expense—but choosing not to have children harms no one. There is no child waiting to exist, wronged by your decision. What *is* selfish is breeding out of social obligation, then resenting the child for disrupting your life. Or having children you can't afford, burdening society. A woman who refuses motherhood to pursue her own projects, her own freedom, her own becoming—she's not selfish. She's honest. She refuses to sacrifice her humanity on the altar of reproductive duty. That's not selfishness. That's liberation.