Abortion: An Act of Urban Monoculture Worship

Join Malcolm and Simone Collins as they dive deep into the complex and controversial topic of abortion, challenging both progressive and conservative viewpoints. This thought-provoking discussion covers:

* The problematic "worship" of abortion in progressive circles

* A critical examination of Catholic teachings on conception and life

* The scientific timeline of fetal development and its ethical implications

* The impact of IVF on Catholic fertility rates and religious survival

* A biblical perspective on sin, pleasure, and human dignity

* The unintended consequences of extreme anti-abortion stances

* Proposals for more ethical and humane abortion practices

Whether you're pro-life, pro-choice, or somewhere in between, this video offers a fresh perspective on one of the most divisive issues of our time. The Collinses bring their unique blend of scientific knowledge, philosophical inquiry, and personal experience to this challenging topic.

Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] right now in the world, more children are aborted per year than humans die. Like, post birth humans die. Um, And you

Trans woman to have a successful uterus transplant, ovaries and eggs included. And I want to be the first trans woman to have an abortion.

Get that fetus, kill that fetus. Rack, rack, you good rack.

You mean, I'll never know what it feels like to have a baby growing inside me and then scramble its brains and vacuum it out?

Malcolm Collins: I realized that because it's a religious act for them almost

I hope and pray to God it don't feed us as a song. Cause I want it to feel pain when I eject it from my own

Malcolm Collins: if you put a fetus in a, in a human woman's body, it will eventually become a human being. And

but an egg and a sperm on their [00:01:00] own, they won't eventually become a human being. And I was like, you just added a little word there, if you put them in a woman's body, if you put an egg in a sperm in a woman's body, just like if you put a fetus in a woman's body, it becomes a human being.

Simone Collins: It is now standard medical practice after 15 weeks to use anesthesia during fetal surgeries. But this is really important. And this is going to come up a little bit later in my thoughts on this subject. Pain medication is not standard practice in abortions. there's this one part of the medical establishment that is like, okay, this is a baby, we're going to save your baby.

Don't worry, mother, it's going to be fine. And then there's this totally sort of other industry, which is like, this is a cluster of tissue. There is, there is, there's cardiac activity. Let's, you know, you need to exercise your right. This is not human

Would you like to know more?

Malcolm Collins: Hello, Simone. I'm excited to be here with you today. Today we're going to be doing an episode because this has been [00:02:00] increasingly happening to me where I have been updating my views on various subjects from back when I used to just be in the urban monoculture, you know, when you were growing up, you grew up in central San Francisco.

And so you grew up really inundated with these far lefty ideas about everything. I grew up sort of all over the place, different you know, boarding schools and stuff like that. But a lot of them were in New England. And so I was heavily influenced by those cultures.

Simone Collins: Right.

Malcolm Collins: And you know, when you're in the urban monoculture, this, this far progressive culture, you don't even really question things about abortion, right?

You should always It's

Simone Collins: my body, my choice.

Malcolm Collins: And I remember in high school when I, you know, slept around a lot, you know, I've mentioned this on other podcasts and, you know, by the time I got to college, I slept with over a hundred people and [00:03:00] I I don't think that's a good thing to do. I would clarify. I think that I associated it with status, and then I began to, you know, like the machine that Malcolm is, if I'm like, okay, you know, this thing has value in society, I must orient my life around maximizing Right, if

Simone Collins: sex is your objective function, it's your objective function, you gotta maximize it.

Malcolm Collins: Well, and that's what the environment of this modern, youthfull culture taught me, right? So, I would try to Engage with it as much as possible, and I remember thinking oh my gosh, like whenever the abortion stuff would come up. I won't be able to have sex as freely

Simone Collins: as a manslaughter abortion is very important.

Malcolm Collins: Yes. Fewer women will want to sleep with me and they may get pregnant and then decide not to have an abortion. And then I didn't even think about that. This election is

Simone Collins: screwed. All the men who want to have sex can't vote. Yeah. I, one of

Malcolm Collins: my favorite things is these, these progressives where you'll have them standing out and they'll being like, [00:04:00] With these new abortion restrictions.

I'm just, I guess I'm not going to be able to sleep with any man whenever they feel like it. Like one woman you were talking about in a podcast was like, you know what? I'm seriously thinking about now only sleeping with men. I'd be comfortable raising a child with.

And it's like, You should have probably been, it was a societal mistake. And I can tell you as a man who got full access to the sexual buffet, that the progressive commons, one of the core things that moved me away from all of that and that lifestyle is I was doing that. I had access to all the sex I wanted from anyone I wanted whenever I wanted.

And it didn't feel good

Simone Collins: at

Malcolm Collins: the beginning because it wasn't really the sex. That was the core thing that felt good. The validation, the achieving something that was supposed to be hard. And that gave me status was in my community.

But the sex [00:05:00] itself just wasn't that important. In terms of the happiness it gave me, and a lot of people are like, well, then that means you're not, no, you're lying to yourself, or you just haven't had a lot of sex.

Like, I was very sexually experimental, I tried all this stuff, it was not, there's just not that much pleasure to be had there. I mean, it's,

Simone Collins: I think it's very similar to food. In that it can be very good, but also in the end.

Malcolm Collins: So what I'm saying is like, you're not really the, the, the, and this is the thing about traditions.

And I mentioned this in another podcast recently is the traditions we have been in society are not like the random opinions of old people. They are ideas that have been honed intergenerationally for thousands of years. Okay. When they came to me and they go, don't live a life just for sex. You know, you won't really enjoy it.

You should focus on getting married and having a lot of kids. That's where fulfillment comes from. And I was like, old man, you don't know what's up. And now like I'm older, I have more [00:06:00] experience. And I was like, oh, that was 100 percent correct. And I, and I should note that I didn't get that from my parents.

My parents actually told me like, my mom was really like, yeah, you should go out and expect that a thing to do. Oh, my parents too. Go out, experiment. Oh yeah. They always are trying to push you to experiment and you never did. You, you rebelled. But in updating my views on abortion, I've noticed a few things