Particularly disturbing about abortion is how it has become the ultimate example of the throwaway society. From tossed cigarette butts and bursting landfills to casual sexual flings, this trend of discarding reveals a fundamental lack of meaning in our lives.

Once this throwaway mentality causes a problem, whether it be a filthy landscape or an unwanted child, we try to fix it, thereby resetting the stage for the next problem to occur and fix.

As a butt goes flying from your fingertips or a woman's butt leaves your bedroom, you feel you have extracted their worth and they now seem useless. Yet the true worth of breathing clean air or loving another human being spiritually is always there for us to recognize.

And when a woman becomes pregnant, this new meaning cannot be reduced to our old perceptions of lack of meaning. This recognition of "otherness" expands our perception to see the world as it is, to come out of the cave as Plato says.