Can a vegan support abortion?

[dazzleman]

Nothing inconsistent here.  Fetii are not alive, they're just a part of the woman's body.

Technically, a vegan will refuse to eat even eggs. I do see somewhat of an inconsistency in that.

Yeah, it is hypocritical.

But then a lot of loony leftists tend to believe that animals are more sacred than humans, so I expect they probably wouldn't care about the unborn human fetus.

You're right about the loony left thinking more highly of animals than people.  They'd expend more energy to save one whale than they would to save thousands of people.  Groups like PETA are nutcases.

[Gabu]

You're right about the loony left thinking more highly of animals than people.  They'd expend more energy to save one whale than they would to save thousands of people.  Groups like PETA are nutcases.

But just think, if it weren't for them, we wouldn't have nearly as productive activities undertaken as things like attempting to get Hamburg to change its name to Veggieburg.

[Erc]

AFAIK, they don't eat eggs (or cheese) because that's exploiting the chicken that laid them (or the cow that was milked) for their resources, not because the egg may perhaps have been fertilized.

So there is perhaps some tenuous justification there...but it seems a far greater sin to kill a three-month-old human embryo than for me to milk a cow.

[Inverted Things]

Vegans are as nuts as people who say the earth is flat, so I don't know why you're looking for a rationale. Veganism is unhealthy and shows a profound misunderstanding for how life works.

[John Dibble]

Nothing inconsistent here.  Fetii are not alive, they're just a part of the woman's body.

Technically, a vegan will refuse to eat even eggs. I do see somewhat of an inconsistency in that.

Yeah, it is hypocritical.

But then a lot of loony leftists tend to believe that animals are more sacred than humans, so I expect they probably wouldn't care about the unborn human fetus.

PETA, I hate those guys. I'm against animal cruelty, but they act as if we don't have any right to use animals for anything. Heck, they fail to realize many farm animals would go extinct if it weren't for us raising them. (seriously, how long would a chicken survive in the wild)

On the other hand, I joined a different PETA - People for the Eating of Tasty Animals.

[minionofmidas]

I made this lifestyle change many years ago, because I consider all life on our Earth to be sacred.

I do too...all life including my own. We're obviously supposed to consume other living matter since we can't live without doing so.

[12th Doctor]

Nothing inconsistent here.  Fetii are not alive, they're just a part of the woman's body.

A chicken egg was never living, in the most real sense of the word.  Yet vegans will not consume them due to the potential for life.

[minionofmidas]

Nothing inconsistent here.  Fetii are not alive, they're just a part of the woman's body.

And brains are not alive, they're just a part of the person's body.
Or what?

[A18]

Nothing inconsistent. They simply don't value unborn human life as much as they do animal life.

It is, however, sick and dumb.

[Joe Kakistocracy]

I'm a vegetarian and don't support abortion. I find many people's responses in this thread rather amusing because, according to them, I must be an idiot because I am a vegetarian.

Am I an idiot for trying to avoid another potential cholestrol problem, which runs in the family, that indulging in animal-derived foods would have probably contributed to? Sometimes I wish that my parent(s) would have allowed me NOT to consume dairy products because I have sinus problems and bad allergies. I don't care who eats meat and neither does my mother (who went vegetarian several years ago). I'm somewhat concerned about ensuring that factory farms improve conditions for animals, but that concern would cause people to find me a tree-hugging, demented leftist (which I don't believe myself to be) so I'll stop.

I don't care who supports what because everyone's beliefs will eventually become hypocritical in some way or another, mine included. I'm not going to tell other people that they're depriving their kids by not giving them meat, or that they're bad for giving them meat. That invites flamewars.

This is the kind of vegetarian I like.  I don't think you're an 'idiot' for being vegetarian, because I respect everybody's right to an opinion.  The only vegetarians and vegans I dislike are those that don't do likewise.