I respectfully disagree.
Abortion is the direct slaughter of an innocent human being. There are no gray areas.
Environmentalism can have a wide array of activism. While environmental extremists support laws that indirectly have resulted in hundreds of millions of unnecessary deaths (such as the DDT example you provide), this is still an indirect murder. There are other levels of environmentalism that have the intent to help people (although they are often ignorant of side effects).
While I'll agree that modern environmentalism is almost entirely based on ignorance or political motivation, and is thus evil, it does not even come close to the direct evil of abortion.
I am replying to your post because I don't believe that the evil of abortion should be "watered-down". It is a great evil alone by itself.
I am replying to your post because I don't believe that the evil of abortion should be "watered-down". It is a great evil alone by itself.
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The evil of abortion can not be separated from the philosophy that is at its core. The fruit of the poisoned tree is death by the eradication of species.
Whether the justification is A Woman's Right to Choose, the Preservation of Endangered Species, The Great Leap Forward, or the hundreds of attempts in the 20th century to rid the world of undesirables, it all amounts to the same thing, death to vast numbers of humans.
Do not make the mistake of thinking that unintended consequences is a lesser evil. The death of a baby is, after all, the unintended consequence of the choice to end a pregnancy.