If There Exists a Spark of Life, We Should Not Seek to Put it Out

   Comes a comment on Facebook calling for women to have the liberty to control their own bodies. And I write back:
   If liberty is to be liberty, it must be liberty for all. We cannot assign it to ourselves while withholding it from the unborn. We cannot deprive them of equality based on which side of the womb they are on. That's discrimination based on womb status. We cannot deprive another person of equality simply because they don't fit our definition of human. Who are we to tell another that he or she is not what we call a human and therefore will not be allowed to live? You speak of science. While I do not agree that science stands for abortions, that it does not recognize the life of the unborn, I wonder about a society that would deprive life to beings that clearly will become people, and do it all in the name of science. We, as mankind, should not be just thinking creatures, bowing to science, but we should have compassion for others. If there exists a spark of life in another, we should not seek to put it out, not in the name of science, not in the name of liberty, and not in the name of controlling our own bodies.