there's not a single analysis of the game on the Internet that even touches the subject - let alone offer that reading...
how is that possible?
it's so on the nose.

5/5

(Death Stranding is openly, cartoonishly, agressively anti-abortion)
4/5

then there's the visual motif of the floating ghosts attached umbicial cords -- it's literally everywhere, all the time: from the design of the monsters to the 'game over'/death space

(Death Stranding is openly, cartoonishly, agressively anti-abortion)
3/5

the entire game runs on the narrative motif of parenthood, & how it's sacred bond, a mission, a noble calling, etc