[hocndoc]

There's a huge difference between humans and other animals (at least in my family) and between abandonment and acting with the intent to kill (although, each may end up with the same results.

Humans have reasoning, communities of individuals who will take in a child who's abandoned, and a recorded history to show the effects of infanticide and separating women from motherhood on those communities.

[GovernmentShrinker]

The difference between humans and other animals is a matter of degree. Primates, elephants, and others, show strong family and social group bonds, often risking their own lives to protect others in their group (not only their own young offspring) from attacks by predators including humans. Those who draw a bright line between humans and other animals are relying exclusively on religious belief, not science. While I respect their right to run their own lives according to their own beliefs, I do NOT respect their claim to a right to run other people lives according to those beliefs.