I present this analogy and example to the pro-life camp. An elderly couple have five children; the eldest and the youngest 12 years apart in age. The eldest has the first grandchild and the youngest the last. The first grandchild is 16 when the youngest is born and the eldest had spent many happy times with the grandfather. When the eldest was 12, the grandfather died, and they say to their parents, "It's sad that my youngest cousin will never know Grandpa." Yes, the eldest grandchild has a point, but the youngest grandchild will only get to know their relatives' construction of their grandfather. So, it's all very well to say, "Oh, but you could deny an unborn child the opportunity to do this, this and this," but people who are describing the good things in life are people who've lived and experienced these things.

I have heard people say, "It's like trying to describe the color red to a blind person." A person who was born blind has never seen the color red. So an unborn baby, whose faculties are not developed cannot appreciate what life is like.