I think the major influence on the pro-life movement in the US is religion. Four of the justices are or have been very strict Catholics. Quantum Physics is taking us long past the beliefs of traditional, paternalistic religions. So is astro-physics and bio-engineering.

We are about to understand that we are not alone in the Universe. That there are possibly many inhabited planets, multi-dimensions and multi-verses. That reality is Maya and that we live in a hologram. Once the lid blows off of scientific knowledge of this kind, primitive religious dogma and doctrine become meaningless. So does the idea that humanity exists in a vacuum.

The question is will human civilization have destroyed itself before modern science and biology are able to take us into a far more complex thought matrix?

We're in the interim phases of extinction and my hope, as a science fiction writer, is that some of our species pass through this eye of the needle. That we get a second chance.

You, Umair remind me of John the Baptist crying in the wilderness (if he existed). Your instincts to warn us about what is happening and going to happen are absolutely right. Now is the time for everyone to be reading 1984, The Man in the High Castle, American Wars, Parable of the Sower, Fahrenheit 451, Stranger in a Strange Land, Shikasta, and The Man Who Fell from Heaven. To be watching the tv series Raised by Wolves and Foundation. The authors of these are extra-ordinary futuristic writers and like you prophets of the future. I would say Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower strikes the same chord that you are doing right now Umair.

One of my favorite physicists Michio Kaku had written a brilliant book called The God Equation. I'd like to quote from it. “The key feature of any theory of everything is likely to be its symmetry. But where does this symmetry come from? This symmetry would be a by-product of deep mathematical truths. But where does mathematics come from. On this question, the theory of everything is again silent.

The universe is a remarkably beautiful, ordered, and simple place. I find it utterly staggering that all the known laws of the physical universe can be summarized on a single sheet of paper (in mathematical formulas). Given the brevity of this sheet of paper, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that this was all planned in advance, that its elegant design shows the hand of a cosmic designer."

I believe we humans are badly out of tune with a cosmic designer which promotes symmetry, the opposite of totalitarianism and fundamentalism.