With the recent uproar over the clumsy words of Todd Akin it got me thinking about survival of humanity as a whole. While the focus is on the words "Legitimate Rape" it really should be on whether or not the abortion of a product of rape is justifiable.
Currently society in America is not as Pro-Abortion as the media portrays (in fact there appears to be a majority against it) but neither are they against abortion in all cases. The general acceptance is abortion is justified in the cases of rape, incest, and to save a mother's life.
Arguments against Abortion in all other cases is fairly easy to make regardless of your political views. Each human has a DNA structure made up of 46 chromosomes.
Twenty-three of which are from the Paternal Unit and the other half from the Maternal Unit. These chromosomes make up a completely new and wholly unique DNA structure. At the moment of conception the genesis of a human life begins. This isn't an arguable point. It is a biological fact. Despite the incredibly small size of a single cell it is human life and is alive.
If a single celled organism were to be found by the Mars Rover, Curiosity, the scientific world would hail they had found life. Yet somehow a growing human in a uterus is called, by pro-abortionists, a blob of cells. Two distinct beliefs held simultaneously by one side creating a paradox of perceived reality. A single non-growing cell could not be called life while a plethora of cells engaged in meiosis is being denied for what it is.
Humanity is a very fragile state of existence and could be eradicated by any number of terrestrial or stellar calamity. The expansion of the human race into space is required for the survival of our species. At the same time this requires the progeneration of human life. Exploration of space will harbor unknown dangers and will require more people to man and explore the newest frontier.
Unfortunately abortion statistics, when examined across the world, indicate that the females of our species are being eradicated in far greater numbers than males. While currently sociologists believe that this will only affect the countries in which this practice is occurring any number of events could shift the larger male population out of their geographical confines and the practice of human eradication would continue outside of those boundaries. To put it bluntly Humankind is killing itself out of vanity and selfishness.
Back to the topic of when abortion should be acceptable. On a grander scale if human survival is the goal then no abortion is not acceptable under any condition. On the other hand humans are not unfeeling machines and can see the pain rape and incest causes and can sympathize with the want to live. I don't propose to have the answers to these questions but I know that maternal units are ultimately responsible for the decisions regarding their ability to give life.
Life is necessary if we are to survive as a species. It should be urged to give life responsibly specifically if one can support it only then should they have it. But this is not to say that if one is unable to that they should not, more that they should take measures to prevent until they are capable. Procreate responsibly.