You've raised a good point.
Abortion is different because it involves the morality of life and death of a person. I detest gay marriage but I find my arguments against it are mostly abstract, unlike my arguments against abortion. I think abortion is in a different category.
I think the abortion thing is also in some way "the luxurious indulgence of a successful culture." Let's include contraception along with abortion. Both practices are about preventing new life because they are borne of a worldview that sees the future as of no concern.
For contraception/abortion to disappear quickly, you would envision a culture in which human beings were dying out and each new life or potential new life would be cherished. We have so many life-saving and life-extending medical technologies these days that they have grown to include the preventing and taking of new life. The fertility technologies and the contraceptive technologies are two sides of the same coin.
‘I think the abortion thing is also in some way “the luxurious indulgence of a successful culture.” Let’s include contraception along with abortion. Both practices are about preventing new life because they are borne of a worldview that sees the future as of no concern.
‘For contraception/abortion to disappear quickly, you would envision a culture in which human beings were dying out and each new life or potential new life would be cherished. We have so many life-saving and life-extending medical technologies these days that they have grown to include the preventing and taking of new life. The fertility technologies and the contraceptive technologies are two sides of the same coin.’
I agree. Homosexuality/abortions/contraception are all links in the anti-life/natural family chain.