''There is a common thread to all of these news stories, regardless of those involved. Whether victim or person, whether protester or protested, whether born or unborn, all discussion of abortion revolves around the implication, the begged question and conclusion, that an unborn baby is a baby. No matter how we try to distance ourselves from this simple fact, using medical technology to push further and further out the timeline along which we may choose to circumvent the inevitable process of that person's being, there is no changing it.''
I was speaking with a friend from Mumbai recently, a coworker who has spent a couple of years in this country pursuing his education. I find it fascinating to chat with him and compare the differences in our cultures. Most of those cultural and societal differences are fairly self-evident. He took me by surprise recently, however, when our conversation drifted into the topic of prenatal testing. A pregnant coworker had recently determined she was having a boy.
"Is it legal?" he asked.
"Is what legal?" I asked, confused.
"Is it legal to know the sex of the baby before it is born?"
It took me a moment to realize what he was implying. He told me that in India it is not legal to know the sex of the baby prior to birth. I realized, then, the obvious reason for this law: It prevents the abortion of unborn girls in a culture that places a high preference on sons.
Previously in Technocracy, we discussed the dangers of prenatal genetic testing as a means of selectively breeding human beings. The tyranny of prescience is being told that we aren't what we wish to be because our genetic inheritance says so. We are much more than the sum of our genes. The technology of prenatal analysis thus poses a danger to society, to our families, because it may be misused to to predetermine, unfairly, the futures of our children.
What is abortion if not the ultimate predetermination of a child's future? It is a medical technology that allows us to pre-empt a human life – to stop a person from, inconveniently, appearing in our midst.
Don't miss the Whistleblower magazine edition entitled: "Medical Murder: Why Obamacare could result in the early deaths of millions of baby boomers"
Abortion has been in the news quite a bit recently, for varying reasons. President Obama and the Democratic Party are scheming to nationalize roughly a sixth to a seventh of the American economy, forcing socialized medicine down our throats as a means of controlling yet more areas of our lives and our wallets. When the government controls health care, it stands to reason that the government would fund abortions as a medical necessity. A recent CNN poll asserts that six in 10 Americans favor a ban on the use of federal funds for such a procedure.