# Vegans and Abortion

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegans-and-abortion/247825>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 30, 2004, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegans-and-abortion/247825 "2004-05-30T19:17:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![jellyblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@jellyblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jellyblue)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2004, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegans-and-abortion/247825/21 "2004-06-01T06:46:14Z")

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Clams have faces?

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**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2004, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegans-and-abortion/247825/22 "2004-06-01T06:55:28Z")

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I remember watching on Shock Video (HBO), something from a British cooking show wherein a lady had kept her placenta after giving birth, and had decided to have “a bit of a fry-up.” They made quite the event of it, and a vegetarian attending this party ate some of it. Any British Dopers remember that show? It raised a bit of a stink (aroma of frying placenta aside).

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**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2004, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegans-and-abortion/247825/23 "2004-06-02T00:08:30Z")

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**hajario** posted (emphasis mine):

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> If they had a plot of land with free roaming chickens as pets, they would most likely not have a problem with eating the naturally occurring _unfertilized_eggs that happened to be laid.

**PetW** replied:

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> So, \*\* Revtim\*\*, looks like vegans can eat abortions, as long as they weren’t aborted for the sole purpose of eating.

Unfertilized eggs aren’t “abortions”. An egg (human or chicken) has to be fertilized in order to develop/hatch into an independently viable organism. Not even the most hardline opponents of abortion believe a woman should be required to have each of her ova eventually develop into an embryo/fetus/baby.

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**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2004, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegans-and-abortion/247825/24 "2004-06-02T05:25:52Z")

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> [@Sternvogel](#):
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> Not even the most hardline opponents of abortion believe a woman should be required to have each of her ova eventually develop into an embryo/fetus/baby.

Unless you want to classify believing any birth control is wrong as that…

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**Author:** ![1010011010](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/ea666f/32.png) [@1010011010](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1010011010)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2004, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegans-and-abortion/247825/25 "2004-06-02T05:50:49Z")

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IIRC, the chances of a fertilized ova implanting properly is prettt low, so a lot of Pro-Life womenfolk are flushing potential people out each month.

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