Here are a few words about abortion - even
though I'm a man. And tradition says that
I don't have a voice in this debate
because one sex shouldn't have body-
rights over another. Which is fine. I
accept that. But half of terminations
are male. So one sex does have body-rights over
another. The right to kill. A female can
destroy unborn males. And can destroy
unborn females as well. So it's not
really about sex, it's about a human's
right to kill another human. And I say
'kill' because euphemisms abound in this
debate, which is really about eugenics.
We're talking about the destruction of
children who are inconvenient, or who may
drain our resources, or the resources of
the community. That is eugenics. And so we
use soft language. We use French- or Latin-
based words rather than German-based
words. We say 'terminate' not 'kill'. We say
'abort' not 'murder'. And we say 'foetus' and
'embryo' not 'baby' or 'human'. Because after
all, it's only a potential human. But that
seems a bit harsh. If we have a licence
to bump off any human that hasn't
reached its potential then that's the
end of The X Factor. But it could be the
end of me as well. I haven't passed my
Grade 8 piano. So should that be a death
sentence? Well obviously I'm an adult so
that seems outrageous. But to kill a baby
in the womb is a lot less outrageous. And
this moral confusion is the source of
the euphemisms. And the confusion is best
demonstrated in the hardest case of all,
in the case of rape. Where you have a
criminal, the rapist and you have a victim,
the mother. And a second victim, the baby.
And our verdict is that the mother
survives. And the rapist survives. And the
baby is executed. And the rapist doesn't
get the death penalty because we adhere
to the notion of 'the sanctity of life'. 
But that doesn't apply to the baby. And
that's the moral confusion again. And we
say, well, we can kill the baby because
it's not the mother's fault so it's not her
problem.
But things that aren't our fault are our
problem. With pollution we understand
that. Other people pollute but we recycle. 
And the baby of the raped woman is not
her fault. But it is her problem, it is
her responsibility. Like for example my car
skids or some ice and I knock down
an old guy. Now if I drive away and leave
him dying, then he is my responsibility.
What happens to him next is my
responsibility. The ice isn't my fault. The
old guy lying injured is my problem.
Or if I'm in a playground and an armed
gang are fighting. And they run away
leaving a loaded gun by the swings. That's not my fault
but it is my problem. It's my
responsibility to deal with the loaded gun.
So that's the same with rape. The mother
didn't cause the baby but her
responsibility for the baby is part of
the crime, it's part of the injury that
was done to her. And our confused way of
solving this problem, this conundrum, is
to kill the baby and to spare its
criminal creator. Rapist - spared. Child -
destroyed. And our rationale for this is
that it offers trauma-relief for the
mother. But trauma-relief might come from
another source. It might come from the
rapist. Imagine if the rapist had to work. With
all his earnings going to support the
child he had created for decades until
it reached adulthood. That is trauma-
relief. Without a downside. And there will
be an upside. Men seeing convicted rapists
working for decades to compensate their
victims. That would affect the rape
statistics. I think rapists would find
masturbation was suddenly a noble calling. But, as it is we abort, we kill babies
in the womb. And I think we do that
because they're not noticed. They don't
have friends or siblings or colleagues. 
They don't come to dinner. They don't
admire our new extension. And they don't
invite us to parties or to weddings. And
they're not missed. They don't have a
social life. But if we kill anyone who
doesn't have a social life then that's
the end of tramps. And loners and people with
autism. Could be the end of me. That's why I worry. And finally here's a happy story about
abortion. Rich guy in America.
Adopted. Finally finds his birth mother
and says 'Thank you'. And the birth mother
is astonished and relieved. And she says
'Why do you say thank you? I gave you away
when I was 23. I couldn't cope.' And he
says, 'Well thank you for letting me be me
and not be an abortion.' And that guy's
name was Steve Jobs
