Yes you can respond to the shortened version. Roseann
Shortened version
“abortions occur all the time in “nature” those abortions were originally described as miscarriages. The use of the word spontaneous as the key word to differentiate between a “nature” (natural) abortion and an abortion that is not caused by “nature”. Most miscarriages happen when the unborn baby has fatal genetic problems. Usually, these problems are unrelated to the mother.
An example of an unnatural abortion is when human females rely on human Doctors to mimic the miscarriages that occur all the time in “nature” sometimes for simply personal reasons and not for fatal genetic problems. Fatal Genetic Problems = Natural Selection. unnatural abortions (are due to) human interference with the natural process of Survival of the Fittest and Natural Selection.
Animal species (are not similar to) Human species. Animal species naturally follow natural law; the natural process of Survival of the Fittest, Natural Selection... etc. Humans are different they have the ability to interfere in that natural process(by) mimicking natural miscarriages (with) human made instruments
It is incorrect to equate induced abortion in humans with spontaneous abortion in wild animals.”
While abortion in the wild is spontaneous and in humans it is consciously decided there are similarities we should consider if we are to have an intelligent respect for the decisive and extensive role abortion, legal or illegal, plays in culture, society, religion, morals, economics, women and children.
As you pointed out self preservation is a fact of nature and abortion is the strategy for species and self preservation in times of extreme and consequential stress. Insufficient food, water, livable habitat, good health and over population are the stressors that trigger spontaneous abortion of a fetus that would be born weak or dead. Abortion preserves the female’s health, produces healthy offspring in the future and strengthens the health of the herd.
It’s important to recognize that pregnancy and birth during a time of extreme stress is an extinction strategy. Weakened females either die giving birth or are too weak to raise offspring and they die. Even if a female lives the herd is weaker.
In humans financial insecurity, emotional instability, poor health, hostile environment predict a debilitating outcome for mothers and children. They are the stressors that can cause spontaneous abortion or make women decide to abort rather than expose a child, herself or her family to a toxic and destructive situation.
That abortion is spontaneous in the wild but humans must make a conscious decision to abort doesn’t change the fact that stress triggered the abortion in both situations in order to preserve the female’s health and produce a healthy child/offspring later. Stress in the extreme has a similar effect in the wild and in human society.
There is no doubt that abortion is tragic. Photographs exist of animals mourning a dead fetus. But abortion is irrefutably and immutably a natural, life preserving, species protecting reaction to compelling and life threatening stresses. It is not helpful to make abortion into a moral or religious issue. It isn’t.
It is a natural strategy, conscious or unconscious, to protect the health of child-bearing females in bad times so strong children become possible later. Banning or restricting abortion circumvents the natural instinct to preserve the individual and the species.
