Editor,
Do you believe in destiny? Do you believe in fate? Everyone has heard, “He was destined to be a (blank). It was his fate.” Is what you are studying today leading to your destiny? When a young boy or girl dies, their parents say, “He/she wanted to be a (blank). That’s all he/she thought about.” That child had a destiny but, unfortunately for the world, their life was cut short. The suspense is never over as we’ll always wonder who they were to become. Does a fetus or “it” have a destiny? Maybe “it” is, or was, to be the first woman president, the first person on Mars, the inventor of the cure for breast cancer or AIDS, or another Elvis. How do we know that someone somewhere didn’t just abort an Einstein, a Rembrandt or a Plato? Some people say President Barack Obama is living his destiny. Luckily his mother didn’t abort him, right? But what if the real “first black president” was aborted years ago? Is the only reason “it” is conceived and then aborted so there could be a pro/anti debate? No matter what side of the abortion issue you are on, don’t you ever wonder who “it” was or is?
Steve Chavez
UNM alumnus
