Abortion, Part II

I wasn't planning a part II, but I continue to see anti-abortion images (like, every single day), and I had a new category to talk about:

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#5 CONTRASTING THE PROTECTION OF ENDANGERED SPECIES WITH THE LACK OF PROTECTION FOR HUMAN EMBRYOS

Like this:

FROM: https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/71829_4699416081606_1259578732_n.jpg

Or this:

FROM: https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/774971_154565054693245_641727558_o.jpg

The difference between destroying the eggs of these organisms and aborting a human embryo or early fetus is the HUMANS ARE NOT GOING EXTINCT!!!

Humans are presently causing an extinction of event, one that could, ultimately, be on the scale of the P/T extinction event or the K/T extinction event. We are primarily accomplishing this gross crime against all other living creatures by destroying habitats. With the land we get from removing the native ecosystem, we make paper from logging and leave the land to waste. We plant crops to feed factory-farmed animals and to make artificial sugars. We grow hay to graze cattle (these are the lucky cattle who actually get to eat a reasonably healthy diet rather than grains). We build houses and cities and factories and power plants and roads and train tracks and air ports and so on. We control water ways. So, why is it punishable to destroy eagle eggs? In part, national pride in the US, as the bald eagle is a symbol of the United States. But, more importantly, bald eagles, loggerhead sea turtles, and many, many others have been placed on the brink of extinction by loss of habitat due to human selfishness, and we have a moral obligation to stop making them extinct. [As of 2007, bald eagles are no longer listed as endangered because of human interventions like harsh penalties on anyone who dared harm one of these birds.]

In total contrast, the human population is growing exponentially. In mathematics terms, this means the further you go into the future (time being the x-axis), the population (the y value) approaches infinity. Of course, population growth is only exponential until resources become too limited and everyone dies. We are still in the exponential growth part of the curve, the rate at which the population is growing always getting larger, the slope of the population growth line getting closer and closer to m=1. When other species are suffering because of human global change, we are thriving. But growth cannot last forever and, if we refuse to take action, we will be our own demise. As such, preventing the births of unwanted, excess children through abortion can only help to alleviate the problem in a some very small way. Either by government intervention (which has many ethical problems, but there may come a day where it is necessary) or by a shift in popular opinion of large, biologically-related families (that is, a pervasive belief in mainstream culture that a couple with more than 2 biological children is utterly irresponsible, and that couples wanting large families or couples with difficulties getting pregnant should grow their families via adoption and foster parenting), we need to dramatically reduce the human population growth rate artificially, or there will be more people starving in days to come than the billion who went hungry this year alone.