Quote Originally Posted by Philipvs Vallindervs Calicvla View Post
Maybe because I know, anthropologically speaking, that most societies license and regulate sexual activity because of the consequences in engaging in sexual intercorse. We are one of the most sexuallly unregulated societies ever, and as a result we have large numbers of single women with unwanted pregnancies, selective abortion is plaster on a wound in our society, not a solution. You describe sex as a social aspect of our society, but you ignore the fact that in the West people are increasingly engaging in sexual practices which either have no social dimension (one night stands) or negative ones (people getting together, jumping into bed after a couple of dates and then the woman getting pregnant, not to mention being infected with an STD.)
There's not much “increasing” there, except single women. There used to be practice of reserving virgins in brothels for affluent clients for a reason, precisely because of the prevalence of STDs. HIV & Ebola are new ones, but the point is that this sort of thing is now much more actively campaigned against. Similar to the campaigns of the early and mid 20th century in Western Europe which also brought DDT to the masses.

In any case it is not clear that the legalisation of abortion corresponds to a statistical increase in abortions (according to Viking the opposite appears true for Nordic countries, and you can add the Netherlands to that list as well).

If you were rich enough to aford a wet nurse, otherwise you probably died. It doesn't change the fact that the child and the fetus are both dependants, but we accord one full rights and the other none based purely on the stage of development.
True but there remains adoption which is a very common trait among humans. We even frequently adopt the young of other species.
It is actually a biological plan B, it is pervasive beyond the human species to the point that human babies can be adopted and raised by other species.