Abortion, like all violence, is neither intrinsically good nor intrinsically bad, but helpful or harmful.
It is helpful or harmful to the individuals, or helpful or harmful to the polity, or helpful or harmful to mankind.
In other words, abortion in the upper 20% is harmful to society and to man, and abortion in the lower 50% is beneficial to society and to man, and for everyone else it’s merely helpful or harmful to the individual.
Likewise reproduction in the lower 50% is harmful to individuals, to society, and to man. Reproduction in the upper 20% is helpful to society and to man. And for everyone else, reproduction is merely helpful or harmful to the individual.
Really. It’s that’s simple. That’s the answer, and there is no other answer that I know of. It’s not only simple it’s patently obvious. The only reason it’s an even vaguely interesting question is the strange cognitive bias that the question applies equally to all, rather than differently to each.
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev, Ukraine