YOUR SAY: Is America humane?

A space alien comes to America with the single mission of finding out if the United States, recognized as the most powerful country on earth, is a humane or inhumane country. The planet of the alien believes that the best way to ascertain the humanity of a country is to discover the way it treats its most vulnerable citizens. So the mission of the alien spy is to simply find out who are the most helpless and powerless people in America, and then discover how they are treated.

Disguised as an earthling pollster, the alien begins to ask people on the streets of America who they believe are the most powerless people in the country. He gets a wide variety of answers. Some say black people are the most powerless. Some say the poor. Some say poor blacks. Some say poor immigrants. Or illegal immigrants. Others say the disabled, the mentally ill, prisoners. It is difficult to find a consensus on which group in America has the least power.

So the alien does some research on his own about human beings. He discovers that after conception, human beings spend many months growing in the wombs of their mothers before they are born and become visible to other people. During the months humans are in the womb, no one can see or hear them. They are completely powerless. Unlike the other born candidates for most helpless Americans, pre-born babies can not march, picket, petition, vote, or contact their congressman. Even their own mothers cannot hear their cries or complaints, if they have any. The alien decides that pre-born human babies are, hands-down, the most helpless human beings in America -- in fact, on planet Earth.

Now the task is to determine Americas humanity quotient by finding out how pre-born human babies are treated. After a short investigation, the alien reports back to his superior on the home planet. This is part of their conversation:

Superior: So how are pre-born babies treated in America?

Alien: Well, it’s a shocker.

Superior: Really? How so?

Alien: There’s no way to sugar-coat it. About 1 out of 4 pre-born humans don’t make it out of their mothers’ wombs alive.

Superior: Astounding. What happens to them? Do they fall ill?

Alien: No, it’s worse than that. They are actually killed.

Superior: But who would kill a baby? America’s enemies?

Alien: It is the mothers who decide the fate of the babies. Sometimes there are very tragic circumstances. But mostly the babies who are at the greatest risk of being destroyed are the ones who are unplanned. There are certain doctors who can be paid to kill the babies who are unwanted. And the babies aren’t even killed humanely. They are ripped apart in the womb.

Superior: Unbelievable. And these doctors aren’t prosecuted for destroying human babies?

Alien: Apparently there was a legal ruling in 1973 that the right to privacy includes the right to kill unwanted children.

Superior: Surely not all Americans support this barbarism?

Alien: No, most Americans say they are against it and the stance of the two political parties is clear -- one party supports killing unwanted babies and one party doesn’t, at least with very few exceptions. But this is where it gets weird. As far as actively opposing the destruction of pre-born babies, there is surprisingly little that goes on -- even from those who say they are against it.

The church appears afraid of being seen as judgmental, which is apparently a huge sin in America. Most animal rights advocates appear to be unmoved by the torturous way pre-born babies are destroyed.

And here’s a really strange thing. Several of the groups of Americans whose ancestors were heavily persecuted in the past -- blacks and Jews -- vote heavily for the pro-baby-killing political party. So all in all, the destruction continues unchecked. Fifty-five million American pre-borns have been killed since the legal ruling in l973.

Superior: What a horror. It’s obvious that Americans don’t answer to a higher power or even practice basic humane behavior toward each other. Get home as soon as you can. We have our answer about America. How very, very sad.

Rinda Wilson is a resident of Macon.

This story was originally published August 27, 2015 at 12:00 AM with the headline "YOUR SAY: Is America humane? ."