We will never know if the person who would find the cure for childhood cancer was killed by a woman who didn’t want it, but we will always live with that question, what could have been?
Was a peacemaker who would have found a way to end all war, killed by a doctor who felt there was too much pain in the world? Perhaps.
Was the scientist whose discovery of a way to end pollution -- disposed of by people who seek to make life better for those who didn’t want to raise a child? We will never know.
Was the person who, through the pain of their youth but the strength of their character, grew to complete the legacy of Martin Luther King and end racial bigotry disposed of in the biohazardous waste of an abortion clinic? Maybe.
How easy it is to dispose of life, to ignore the unrealized potential lost to the world, to justify a belief that life is only worth protecting if it will be what we think it should be.
Have we as a society realized all the great things abortion of the unwanted was to bring us? Have we eliminated poverty or improved the quality of lives for those who now deal with the aftermath? Is society richer for the loss of those human beings, or is it poorer? Who can tell me, what have we gained and what have we lost?
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