Are humans the only animals who make the decision to kill their unborn?

Answer 1

Some human parents are willing to kill their unborn child because instead of viewing the child as a blessing and an opportunity to teach and to guide the child in the ways of the pious, they see the child as a threat, a hindrance, an obstacle and a burden to their lifestyle and career.

Yes, in their house, there is room for the giant flat TV, the sports car and the poodle. But no room for a child who cannot speak yet and who will make the parents' life so hard and miserable.

Answer 2

no....i cannot remember the species, but in some primates.

when male lions kill the cubs of other males, so that the females can breed again, the same situation happens with some primates, and instead of waiting for the male to kill the babies, the mothers smash themselves and self abort. (when a new male takes over).

Rabbits are capable of "freezing" the development of embryos for up to six months, at which point the pregnancy must either be allowed to continue development or aborted, In overcrowded and stressed conditions, rabbit females may hold onto suspended pregnancies that way for some time, to see if conditions ease and they have sufficient resources to sustain babies; however, if conditions don't ease, then the females will secrete a hormone mix which aborts the pregnancy and either resorbs the embryos.

there are a lot more examples, of abortions for differing reasons, but i cannot remember at the moment

Most of these answers talk about killing newborns, not abortion. The rest say that only humans have abortions, but this is wrong.

Answer 3

Since we are the ones with the technology,

But the animals make up for our losses , some of them having the technology to produce 6/7 and 8 at a time others produce 100 s at a time ,
Can you see how lucky we are, if we had been producing those numbers,
Your question would have been ,
Why do we eat our offspring's after birth

Answer 4

We're the only animal that can deliberately choose to have recreational sex without contraception and then destroy the life that results from that choice for reasons of personal convenience.

Other animals don't have the advanced and sophisticated technology to make that choice, but they might do it if they could. Many animals kill newborns in certain circumstances, for instance where there is a serious threat that can only be escaped by the fit and mobile, or where there is such a shortage of food that not eating the weak means none of the family survives, or where a male wipes out existing offspring so his female can devote herself to his own young.

Answer 5

Humans are the only living species that abort their unborn for whatever reason. Along with intelligence comes a conscience that can be exercised according to ones will, whether right or wrong.

Answer 6

Yes. Humans, are a more advanced animal, who have the power to make decision, but they misuse it for the wrong purpose.

Answer 7

Perhaps, most animals wait until the offspring is born to eat their unwanted newborn babies. But yeah, if I saw a baboon perform an abortion I would be pretty scared.

Answer 8

Humans are the only animals that make decisions to begin with. As far as killing their young used to be called child sacrifice but now pro choise.

We've evolved so much we don't know about birth control or abstinence. Thank God for science, wow.

Answer 9

The way other species deal with unwanted pregnacies is to abandon the babies as soon as they're born. I've seen it many times, and have even bottle-fed kittens so they'd survive after their mother left them for dead.
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Answer 10

Yes, other animals that do this wait until the animal is born.