The two issues may seem relevant but really, in terms of scale they aren't. Remember, I said that in an ideal world we would all take responsibilty for our actions, I did not say that I was completely against abortion. There are cases where, if both parents agree, abortion is for the best. Some parents are simply not able to take on the responsibility of having a child. In these cases do I believe that it was irresponsible of them to have sex and create a life in the first place, even though they knew they couldn't support it if it should happen? Yes, I do.phan258 wrote: Anyway, if you believe overpopulation is a problem, why wouldn't you be in favor of aborting unwanted pregnancies? The two issues seem pretty relevant to eachother to me.
Abortion is not a form of contraception.
Aborting an unwanted pregnancy will not solve the problem of overpopulation, the number of aborted pregnancies each year is a drop in the ocean.
The way forward with this issue (aside from contraception) may be to either limit the number of children that people can have or tax people based on the number of children they have. I think both these things are unfair, I mean surely people should be allowed to have as many kids as they want, but when you consider the alternative, which is overpopulating the world until your grandchildren are born into a life in which they do not have enough food to survive, it doesn't seem so cruel.
If we don't take care of it, nature will, and that basically means that the lack of food will cause people to die until the population becomes small enough to support itself again.