Because most philosophies that frown on reproduction don't
survive.  Thursday, October 25, 2012  The Problem with the
"Pregnancy is Work" Argument For Abortion  Over at The Atlantic,
Ta-Nehisi Coates reprints a post that he wrote two years ago
which he considers to be a strong argument for the unrestricted
"right to choose" abortion. This argument is basically that
pregnancy is hard and sometimes dangerous work, and that women
should thus not be forced to do it if they don't choose to. Like
most people, I have deep problems with the termination of life
-- and that is what I believe abortion to be. Still a decade
ago, I learned that those problems were abstract, and could not
stand against something as tangible and imposing as death.  My
embrace of a pro-choice stance is not built on analogizing Rick
Santorum with Hitler. It is not built on what the pro-life
movement is "like." It's built on set of disturbing and
ineluctable truths: My son is the joy of my life. But the work
of ushering him into this world nea