So without any further introduction, here it is. Read this and you will learn a great deal. It not only asks all the hard questions in one place and tests to destruction the arguments presented by both sides, but also reveals quite a few things that many are simply not aware of. Regardless of your specific conclusions, pro-life or pro-choice, Carl’s thoughts on this is one of those “must-read” essays. It is worth thinking through the topic and arming ourselves with robust arguments for the inevitable debate replays that will come. The religious right are in office by proxy and so the debate will once again inevitably bubble to the surface in due course as attempts are made to row back the current position. Wade case in 1973), but clearly there are moves afoot to change things. Legally we know where things now stand, ( the landmark Roe v. Why return to this yet again, is it not a done deal? One other thought to also perhaps consider here is that this was written almost twenty years ago in 1997. The topic of abortion is obviously one that is highly contentious and also highly charged due to the strands of religious thinking that comes into play, and so it is perhaps interesting to see what a deeply profound intellectual such as Sagan concluded after pondering over it all. The book itself is highly rated, very popular, and worth adding to your “must read” list if you have not yet done so. Each chapter stands alone and covers distinctly different topics, such as global warming, the population explosion, extraterrestrial life, morality, and also of immediate interest, the abortion debate. It is not one unified topic, but is, as you might have guessed, a collection of essays within three categories. Clearly Carl himself enjoyed the humour and so he used it as the title of this book.Ĭarl rather sadly passed away in 1996, and so this book, published in 1997, was the last he ever wrote. The phrase itself came via Johnny Carson doing a skit using the term on the Tonight show to poke a bit of gentle fun at him. He did of course stress the B in Billions just to give emphases to it being a lot bigger than “million”. Side Note: Interestingly enough, Carl himself never once used the phrase “Billion and Billions” in Cosmos. Carl Sagan’s book titled “ Billions and Billions, Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium“, contains a rather interesting chapter on the topic of Abortion.
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