Spot on. And it's, once more, typical of the moral vacuum the man exists in.
His moral framework, such as it is, seems to be based on utilitarianism and pragmatism - which require no moral absolutes.
the never thought about it is just as damning as the aborting of the loser child.
And yet it’s odd how pragmatism can come up with answers that are more “conservative” (however we need to ask, conserving what?) than religion.
The modern approach to suicide attempts is more akin to the older approach to abortion. The one who assists in it (except for a few sad modern exceptions) gets in deep criminal dutch. The one who attempts, becomes subject to civil law concerning sanity, at most.
I would think it should rightly be treated as a madness. Theologians could have a deeper insight, a madness caused by an acute loss of love, and as fundamentally illogical as suicide.