DuracellEnergizer said:

darth_ender said:

This world is overpopulated anyway
This world sucks and I don't want a child to be subject to the evils therein
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Wow, those all sound like they boil down to convenience.

How do those "boil down to convenience"?

Well, it is EXTREMELY convenient that the people who judge "overpopulated" and "too evil world" are the same ones who decide whether the child is too inconvenient for their lifestyle and/or socio-political interests.

That said, I'll confess to having a great deal of sympathy for the idea that, if the world is most likely hurtling towards chaotic horror, the child is probably better-off escaping quickly and early.

This doesn't reduce the evil and horror of infanticide by a scintilla, however. It only means that I am weak and culpable in the evils.

I am also sympathetic to the idea that a 5 day-old clump of cells doesn't rise to the same level of a 4 month-old fetus.

I look to designed nature and inspired scripture for guidance. 40 is a number associated with trial and developement towards a higher state. 40 days to a being with clearly definable features of a person, 40 weeks of gestation, 40 years of fertility. It is said that "ensoulment" comes at 40 days.

I have great doubts as to whether God is just. But if the creator has even the barest concept of human justice, we are in UNIMAGINABLE trouble.