In China or India, if a woman is pregnant with a girl baby, she is likely to abort and try again for a boy. With pre-natal birth defects test, a woman can decide that the child's life is not worth living (by her standard) or will be too inconvenient, or too expensive.
It seems that we have the ability to "arrange" our families in just the way we want, "arrange" our children in just the way we want. And for what? For our idea of "quality of life"? I submit as a fellow human being that life happens more than it is arranged. The more we try and arrange and modify the natural world to suit us, the more we will realize the futility of our efforts. For to be human means to experience: pain, joy, hardships, success, love, sorrow, fulfillment and loss. No one gets to escape their own humanity. No amount of "arrangement" of our situation will help us to outrun what it means to be human.
Our "arrangement" of things begins to push aside another human being for our own convenience, meaning, that human being will not improve the quality of my life, so I will kill him or her. Or, the idea that it is noble to say, I predict the future of this human being will be too difficult, so "mercifully" I will kill him or her. The weakest among us then, is defenseless in the assault upon their very life, and are eliminated from our midst, and the rest of us walk by the abortion clinics thinking "they are better off". Better off dead than trying to live a life that is too hard or too inconvenient by our "clairvoyant ability" to predict the future for them and for ourselves.
Now if we expand the "arrangement" of our families to the "arrangement" of our societies or states, then you have this very poignant comparison, take 33 minutes and watch this video:
