America’ Most Endangered Species

America’ Most Endangered Species
John R. Petrilli

By definition, an endangered species is a population of an organism which is at risk of becoming extinct because it is either few in numbers or it is threatened by changing environmental or predatory parameters. Currently 1,556 known species in the world have been identified as endangered, or near extinction, and are under protection by government law. The World Conservation Union (IUCN) has calculated the percentage of endangered species to be forty percent of all organisms based on samples evaluated through 2006. The IUCN Red List uses the term “endangered species” as a specific category of imperilment, and includes the following categories: Extinct, Extinct in the wild, Critically endangered, Endangered, and Vulnerable. At the international level, 190 countries have signed an accord agreeing to create Biodiversity Action Plans to protect endangered and other threatened species.

While our God-given mandate to have dominion over creation surely includes the preservation of all species, there’s one species left off of the list of endangered species that should be cause for concern. That species would be the human species, and, more specifically, the unborn child. While some species have tragically been seriously decimated by a variety of factors, none of them compares to the 50 million babies extinguished by the abortionist’s knife. Who would have ever thought that the most dangerous place to be in America would be the interior womb of an expecting mother?