Abortion: How One Person's Selfishness Affects the Future

The Abortion of One Unborn Child Can Indelibly Change the Future for Generations to Come

My recent interest in genealogy has left me pondering some big issues. As I research further and further back, the names of each ancestor begin to run together and all look the same. We have no way of knowing each and every one of their stories. But, each name represents a life that was lived fully and brought something to this world. Each name is a person who meant the world to someone else. Each name is a big piece of who I am, today, hundreds of years later.

Consider every person it took to create you. How many direct ancestors could you count back until you reached Adam & Eve? Hundreds? Thousands? It took every one of those people to create who you are and what you have become, genetically. Suppose you have 900 direct ancestors, had just ONE of them not grown to maturity and gave birth to the next line of descendants, you, your children, grandchildren, or any descendants would exist. See how important just one person is in the big realm of things? It doesn't matter if 899 of those ancestors existed; just one missing from the link would mean you would not exist.

This rule doesn't apply to just you and me, it applies to everyone and everything. Think of all the people in history who have contributed something very important to society.

Dr. Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin. Penicillin has single-handedly saved countless lives and improved the quality of others. Leo Baekeland was the inventor of artificial plastic, a substance that touches each of us every single day to make our lives better. Jonas Salk discovered the polio vaccine. This has kept so many people from suffering from a lifetime of disability and pain; even death!

These people represent just a few examples to make a very big point. Had any single one of their ancestors died before reproducing, these fine people not being born would have affected our quality of life. We could have still been succumbing to infections, dying of polio, etc. And what if it was your father or mother who died of polio or of some kind of infection that could have been cured with penicillin? Again, it would have meant that you would not have come into existence.