Do aliens have abortions? (Details )

The newborn abort their “parent” immediately after a c section…(John Hurt knows)

^What I like the best about you @ucme is your ability to make charismatic replies in such short, readable packages.

Well done sir.

Perhaps you could change your name to “Sir” ucme.

People have been knighted for less.

They don’t need to, because they practice effective contraception.

@MrGrimm888 I like short packages, used to have a crush on Lucy Ewing

There are plenty of animals here on earth that practice infanticide regularly. No need to visit alien worlds.

There’s a good old Sci-Fi novel called ”Dragon’s Egg” that explores a non-humanoid alien culture that developed on this fast-spinning planet. Because of the high gravity and rapid spin, travel was extremely difficult, with west-east travel taking much more energy than east-west travel.

During one part of the story, a mother alien had to rush west-east to save her child. Because she was “with egg”, she had to choose which to save: her living offspring or the egg she was incubating. as carrying the egg made her move slower. With almost no thought, she jettisoned the egg, and retrieved her kid from danger.

There was always another egg, after all.

I can confirm with complete confidence that aliens don’t perform abortions, and humans are the only species in the universe that do.

I hope that anwers your question.

What? I don’t get how people can frame questions this way and expect a meaningful answer. Are you fishing for goofy-logic-exposure from people in the way they think about human abortion?

Seems obvious to me that the answer to this, given enough alien races, would be “some do, some don’t”. Given not enough alien races (like, one), the answer is “I don’t know”.

I guess you’re asking what we think seems most logical or reasonable. Personally, I think terminating pregnancies or even about-to-be-born children or suffering newborns makes sense in some cases and should be entirely the decision of the mother. This because the life of the mother and the potential suffering of the child are very significant to me, and the killing of something that hasn’t lived outside a womb past day one is not particularly significant to me. Everyone dies. A life that just comes into an abstract womb existence and dream about stuff for some months and then dies, seems like a relatively good life. By that, I mean (for example) a better life than we give our food animals in industrial farms, which I have at least a thousand times more sympathy for because they suffer and have to endure much longer in a miserable state. And a better life than a human child kept alive by life support and surgeries and possibly suffering due to horrible defects. Human mothers almost universally have a massively sympathetic outlook towards their own even-unborn children. If even they feel it’s best to terminate the pregnancy, then in almost every case I would say that’s probably accurate and that there is no one who should have higher jurisdiction over that choice than the mother.

They do.

@Zaku . No.hidden agenda here.we have been discussing abortion on a couple threads lately. I was trying to take the human variable out of the equation. Attempting to remove empathy from the abortion argument.

I wanted both people for, and against it to think about it purely as a concept, with as little emotion as possible.

Removing the human element might give abortion different context.

And, I was just curious about alien reproduction. (All hypothetical, obviously. )