When I posted about abortion in the daily thoughts I share on my Facebook page, a young woman named Cass stepped in to say some things. 

Without an eternal perspective, without ­under­standing the reality that the best is yet to come, we assume that people who die young, who are handicapped, who ­aren’t healthy, who ­don’t get married, or who ­don’t _____ [fill in the blank] inevitably miss out on the best life has to offer.