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1Anyone else get that email entitled "LIFE-Why the red duct tape"?  I hope the process isn't automated for them. I sent a heartfelt response.
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3My response to them:
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5I do not appreciate this email.
6I do not appreciate this email being placed in my priority inbox.
7Take me off your contact list.
8Do not email me again.
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11 Nice. I went with this:
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1350% of all pregnancies are terminated spontaneously, usually without the woman ever knowing. If "god" exists, he's the most prolific abortionist of all time.
14But there is no evidence for the existence of god, so the claim that "abortion is wrong" should never even be brought to the table if it is being supported by religious premises.
15Don't ever email me this shit again.
16For every fetus you don't abort, I will abort three.
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19A fetus has yet to "realize" itself, to say the least. I am empathetic towards the "woman's choice" argument, but for me the real reason why abortion is not wrong is because the egg and the sperm both had potential to begin with. You could argue that after fertilization there is higher "potential" for the specimen developing and eventually "realizing" itself, but are we trying to cultivate potential, or well-being? I don't think potential matters because if it were good to cultivate potential we would be fertilizing every sperm cell and egg in the world. We could even create a human with other cells of yours! Not just sperm. So none of this really matters. At the very least, aborting a child is no worse than slaughtering a fully grown cow for your evening meal. Though I would argue that killing the cow is significantly worse.
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22The world needs less people. If someone wants to abort a child, it's usually not in spite of the fact that they have money and good genes. It is sometimes, but usually it is not.
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24t Private property is unethical. But that's a different issue.
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27More humans does not = good. In fact, less humans = good. If we somehow knew that a fetus in a particular womb was going to be put through just the right nature/nature so as to bring about a human who would go on to make the world a much better place, then yes, it would be wrong to abort that fetus. For obvious reasons we cannot know this, and there is no reason to give a fetus the benefit of the doubt when all it is is a bundle of potential. There are way too many people.
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29 Someday I'll put all this into a more coherent argument. The legality of abortion only interests me because it is primarily split between secular and religious arguments. I side with the secular. But of course, there are exceptions.
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31Why would we need to protect unwanted fetus's?
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33 What is the difference between using birth control (thus impeding the "potential" of an egg each month) and aborting a fetus (thus impeding the "potential" of an entity that happens to be fertilized)?
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35By itself sperm does not have potential. But a fetus doesn't have potential without a womb... so I don't know what you're getting at.
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37 It comes down to consensual adults, desiring a child and having one. In all other cases, it is just as reasonable to abort a fetus as it is to take birth control or eat meat. No matter what you're killing an entity with potential. And I think animals are relevant because they are already conscious, and yet people think it's okay to mass kill them in order to collectively pursue obesity and heart disease.
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39If you eat meat and you're against abortion, you are a hypocrite.
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41If you think war is justifiable and you're against abortion, you are a hypocrite.
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44Just because something is "natural" doesn't mean it's good. This has nothing to do with whether abortion is natural. I would argue that anyone who has never done LSD is not fully human. Is LSD natural? No. I'm talking about better and worse ways to live life in every domain. Not egoism, not hedonism, but the cultivation of human flourishing. The ability to abort a child is one important component to this.