‘Pro-lifers’ assert, without question, that life is infinitely precious, while cheerfully tucking into a large steak. The sort of ‘life’ that such people are ‘pro’ is all too clearly human life. Now, this is not necessarily wrong, but the evolutionary scientist will, at very least, warn us of inconsistency. It is not self-evident that abortion of a one-month human foetus is murder, while shooting a fully sentient adult elephant or mountain gorilla is not.
