Labeling autonomous reproductive choices 'eugenic' conflates the moral character of an act with its statistical population-level pattern, committing a category error between individual ethics and demographic outcomes.

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Autonomous(as used in ethics): Making a choice freely on your own, without being forced or controlled by someone else.
Category error(as used in logic and philosophy of language): A logical mistake where you apply a rule or concept to something it doesn't actually fit, like using a math formula on a poem.
Conflates(in argumentation and logic): Treats two different things as if they're the same thing, or mixes them up in a way that causes confusion.
Demographic outcomes(as used in sociology and ethics): Large-scale patterns or results affecting whole populations or groups of people, measurable by statistics.
Eugenic(as used in bioethics): Related to the practice of trying to improve the human population by controlling who gets to have children, often based on ideas about which traits are 'better'—a concept widely considered unethical today.
Individual ethics(as used in ethics): Questions about what's right or wrong for one person's actions and choices.
Moral character of an act(as used in ethics): Whether a specific action is right or wrong based on the person's intentions and the context of their choice.

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