We need to support mothers and children to become pro-life society

WHAT would a pro-life country look like?

Does a pro-life country even exist? I often fantasise about the matriarchal society on the island of Kuna Yala off Panama’s Caribbean coast in which the onset of a girl’s fertility is the biggest excuse for a celebration. But I’ve never been there and I would have to go to find out if it’s an anti-life society in other ways.

In a genuinely pro-life country, every child would be cherished by the whole community, no matter how unintended his or her conception. It would be understood that the future lay in the welfare of babies. And that the future would not be pretty if those babies didn’t get the right start.