However, if a woman is not prepared to be responsible for another life, she should never create that life to begin with. It causes all of the problems mentioned above, and possibly more that have not occurred to me. It is the availability of abortion that allows this to continue. The real issue is that quickie abortions are evidence that our society has little respect for life, little desire to live up to the consequences of their actions, and little knowledge of how to act responsibly. It will fight back through natural disasters and diseases and famines that end up costing thousands of lives just to get things under control.
Moral responsibility is utterly essential to ecological responsibility.
If we are not a moral people that values life and respects others, that understands that there are often consequences that we are not seeing, that thinks way ahead to what these consequences might be and act accordingly, we will never be sustainable. The desire of the liberals to not have their lives legislated is indicative of their desire to not have to live with the consequences of what they do. Unfortunately, the alternative is to be a conservative and not have anyone tell you what to do with your money or your business, which creates problems from a different perspective. As I see it, both a completely free market and a completely free lifestyle are disastrous. We need moral consequences and economic consequences.