What is the most helpless, unrepresented minority within the United States today? It is not gays, or blacks, or women.
It is fetuses.
How would you feel if the lives, not the lifestyles but their very LIVES, of gay people were in question? And they were unrepresented at any level of government?
What if black people were ripped from their mothers' wombs before they could be born?
And what if female babies were selectively killed before they were born?
The sad TRUTH is that all of the above are happening today. With approximately 926,000 abortions performed in 2014, that means plenty of gay, black, and female fetuses were killed. But this is no civil rights tragedy because a woman's body is more important than a fetus's life.
I totally get that, and I would agree with it, except for one possibility:
Imagine a world, perhaps a hundred years from now, maybe sooner or later, where a woman does NOT have to carry a fetus to term. As soon as the fetus is created, it can be removed and placed in a special incubator for 9 months, after which it is released to live with its mother or parents or even adopted parents. Considering the advances in postnatal technology, it is extremely likely we will see a day where a fetus's viability could start at day 1, with technological assistance. This would be preferable to the rigors of childbirth for most women, not to mention how this would maintain the sanctity of the woman's body.
But the best part is how it also allows a greater respect for human life, even at the most cellular level of it.
There will come a time in the future, where humanity will look back at abortions with absolute horror that we would ever do such a thing. It is even sadder that it will take technology for us to solve the greatest civil rights dilemma of our time, because we just don't have the moral fortitude for it. We refuse to recognize the most cherished civil right, the right to life, of the least among us.
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