My final reason is more Vulcan (or as I call it Spockian, but that may get confusing so it was rejected by my editor (me)). You might have heard of that philosophy that goes “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one.” especially if you’ve seen Wrath of Khan. My first reason was of the one, my second of the few (the parents), this last is of the many, it is in fact evolutionary.
Evolution needs the various variety. It needs diversity in order for it to work best. When we don’t have diversity we have inbreeding. Abortion cuts off diversity. Abortion is against evolutionary principles, it is against our very nature.
One objection: We can purify our genes through good breeding (from animal husbandry) and cut off offensive shoots (from gardening techniques).
Answer: Humans are neither animals nor vegetation, and even if they were they would certainly not be cattle nor some potted plant. We are far more wild than other creatures of nature. And even if you could make an argument that God (or some deity like mother nature) does in fact do these things, we are not God (or mother nature).
As it is breeding may give you an excellent racehorse, but never the best wild horse.
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