It started with the pill. Personal responsibility is a pre-requisite to ethical decision making. I remember the argument in the ‘60s “if abortion is allowed, there won’t be any unwanted children”. Instead, the subliminal message is “if you don’t want a child you don’t have to have it”.
‘It started with the pill.’
murder of already born babies was rampant in most aboriginal cultures, no doubt going all the way back to early Cro-Magnon man, due to sickness or deformity or otherwise lack of fitness for survival...Captain Cook wrote of the English sailors discomfort at this practice; they had to steel themselves to accept the cultural differences...