What Might Have been

A young woman enters an abortion clinic, but decides against having the procedure and gives birth to a baby girl. Her daughter’s life is chronicled in short segments from her birth to adulthood, and is shown to have a happy childhood and home life, a loving mother and father, siblings and close friends. As a young woman, she becomes class valedictorian, receives a scholarship, goes to college and earns her degree, gets married and has children of her own, earns her doctorate, and eventually wins a Nobel Prize for developing a cure for cancer. The story abruptly stops, and her life is then shown in reverse at high speed, ending at the abortion clinic where her would be mother is sitting on an exam table, prepared to have the procedure. The result of her having never existed, we have only witnessed what might have been. Could it be, that by destroying the pre-born, we are adversely affecting our own future? It is if nothing else, intellectual food for thought.