I guess I wasn't clear when I said they were not mature enough mentally to know what they were doing.
What was meant by that was that they know they are aborting something - but to them it is not a child, it is a problem. They are unable to process with immature minds the long term implications, they only live in the now as is evident by their pregnancy in the first place.
And yes it was horrible what we did to those poor defenseless bugs. My son gets a kick out of batting them with sticks because I have such remorse over my childhood actions. He really thinks it's funny because I fuss at him for killing them.
He is like, oh come on, they are only bugs - you kill spiders all the time.lol