What is NPGs view of abortion?
We support Roe vs. Wade and subsequent Supreme Court interpretations that affirm but limit women’s right to abortion and protect the fetus if it has arrived at a viable stage. There is still a debate about regulating human fertility, because those who oppose it have not yet come to understand what the theory of evolution tells us about human behavior. Charles Darwin had a titanic role in the history of human thought. Out of his observations of finches in the Galapagos Islands came the theory of evolution, which explained things that had never been explainable before about population. All successful species, he said, have the ability to bear more young than their environment can support. This enables species to recover from food-short periods and it enables the best adapted to expand and fill new environmental niches when the opportunity presents. It also leads to overpopulation. The successful survive. The others die off. That excess fecundity is central to the population dynamics of l
