If we carry on down the road of viewing life as merely dispensable, either through war or abortion, we really are heading for "hell in a handcart"

There ya go. Exactement the kind of misrepresentation I rail against. That is not my view of life, and I've posted enough times of the wonderful diversity, beauty and complexity of life on earth for you to know that. Life on Earth is that way exactly because of the struggle for existence, including competition for eggs by billions of sperms, predation, starvation and disease. That is a fact and is regardless of my personal take or my cynical (and tongue-in cheek) take on God's attitude to life. I also note, in the sentence above, the sneaky inclusion of a bit of false (or at least very debatable) equivalence. A nice tactic of the kind prevalent among anti-abortionists and not one to further the discussion in any constructive way.