Abortion and Population

[Rev. Rye]

I'm not really sure why some people seem to have such a hard time with the whole abortion thing. Two people fuck, the female gets pregnant, the female has a baby. This is not rocket science. People have been doing this (making babies) for many thousands of years, successfully. Why should this steady flow of babies be interrupted? I mean, if it's going to be interrupted, there had better be a damn good reason for it......

Is there a good reason it should just go on unimpeded? Because it just gets more and more impractical with every advance in society and medicine. Perhaps in, say, the 1500s, having a bunch of kids might have been a good idea for multiple reasons. If you worked on a farm, for instance, more kids could potentially mean more hands to help keep the farm going. Or it could help be a safeguard in keeping the genetic line going, especially since I remember reading that, in the time of Shakespeare, only 1 Londoner out of 10 made it to their 40th birthday.

But we don't live in those days anymore. Most of us don't live on farms that need a bunch of people to sustain it. These days, dying young is the exception rather than the rule. So any practical reason we had for having them is pretty much moot.

And these days, many people of child-bearing age barely even make enough money to sustain themselves, let alone a child.