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Showing Original Post only (View all)Abortion: what is really the issue? [View all]
Myth has it that Eve tempted Adam. It's always the womans fault.
If we were to accept that in the broader sense of evolution, unfettered rutting only leads to unconrolled population growth, to the extent that the environment will not be able to sustain it.
Religious folk go out of their way to separate us from animals; animals are to be used, eaten, become beasts of burden. Then they claim the 'divine spark' that sets humankind apart from animals. Quite simply, they can't have it both ways.
We are either animals that jointly inhabit the planet with a host of other animals, fish, insects and fungi or we are a 'special' category of living beings to which the laws of nature are not applicable.
This is the contradiction of fundamentalist thought on abortion. Do we reproduce unconrollably or do we apply scientific principles to the number of humans that our planet can sustain.