The envisioning of doomsday scenarios has been a favorite pasttime for many. You are far from the first, will be far from the last. And civilization goes on.
You presented one scenario, but one that assumes that people don't adapt to cultural changes. In general, though, they do. Your vision of half of American mothers in jail is one vision (though it wouldn't come to pass -- doctors would stop doing abortions if the price were a lengthy prison sentence, and the few who were willing to would be in jail soon enough and not around to do the abortions).
But the conflicing vision is that perhaps we would gain a new found respect for life, more along Buddhist principles, which would benefit all of us.
And don't forget that civilization existed and thrived long before d&c, the pill, etc.
The reality is that civilization adapts. Judaism survived the holocaust. Civilization would survive the recognition of human life in the embryo. I don't know, and you don't know, what that civilization would look like, and whether it would be better or worse than our civilization today. But I have no doubt that it would survive. |
