Attack at Planned Parenthood Clinic

[Aroura]

I see, so it is the tasty option.   

Would you be ok with the cat abortion if the remains had been used as food?  A lot of people in the east eat cat.  I personally don't ever want to try it, but it is a thing.
What about killing animals to feed to other animals? For instance, if the aborted fetuses were fed to living cats? Because it would have been for food, that would have been ok, then.

Also...I assume this rule about killing for food does not extend to humans, even though we are technically animals.  You mean non-human animals, correct?  Just clarifying the cannibalism loop-hole here.

What about you, Aroura? We never talk anymore since I stopped having time for mafia. How would you answer all these questions?

I do not think all individual life is inherently sacred, so I would have helped the woman with the stray cat. Unwanted kittens are most likely just going to be killed later in a shelter, which I suppose you know if you work with strays. I find people who refuse to fix their pets abhorent, but I am getting off topic...lol.

I used to think there was nothing at all wrong with killing animals for food. I grew up on a farm, after all, and I helped kill a few turkeys and chickens, even.

But as I have gotten older, my views have changed a bit. I still take no issue with the morality of meat eating in and of itself, but the lives of most food animals are horrid, the cost to our ecosystem is worse, and to individual human health it is also harmful.

I now eat meat rarely. Only free range chicken (I bought a locally raised Turkey on thanksgiving). I used to also eat wild caught fish. Then I discovered what overfishing is doing to the world, and I have stoppe eated eating fish as well. I admit I indulge in occasional processed meats...but acctually now that I think about it, we have not bought anything except chicken or turkey for months. Anyway, meat eating is fine in limited amounts, as long as the animals have a decent life, imo.

So yeah, the way I view life and suffering and moral behavior has drastically affected my personal eating habits.

I think abortion is a terrible, horrifying option. But I am glad it is a legal option. I think my emotions and my logic disagree on the topic a bit. Clearly a zygote is not a person, nor is a fetus. But If I had lost my daughter at say, 18 weeks I would have been devestated. At the same time, as an older woman who was giving birth for the first time, we had a much higher risk of complications and birth defects. My husband and I discussed it early in the pregnancy. We wanted a baby, but If the fetal tests had returned results of severe defects, including downs syndrome, we would have jointly agreed to terminate the pregnancy. I have mental issues that mean I cannot care for a special needs child. I got my tubes tied the same day my daughter was born so I would never have to face such a choice again.

I grant that I am not in a position to judge the lives, circumstances, and choices of others. I am glad that options exist, for many at least. It has only improved society, as a whole, to give women this option more freely.