I am very glad for you that he was not aborted. You know the next thing will be doing away with the seniors. We are a burden. We are inconvenient. Just like some pregnancies are inconvenient.
My test for character for human beings comes from the 19th Century German philosopher/playwright von Goethe:
"You can easily judge a man's character by how he treats those whom [he thinks] can do nothing for him."
The Bible teaches us how we are to treat our elders: "You shall rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and fear your God: I am the LORD."
The fools - and I use that term in its biblical rather than pejorative sense - in charge "know better". Nevermind history stands as witness against their august social constructions of the past, persistent attempts to create heaven on earth fail miserably each time tried for one simple reason: They fail to understand the human heart.
Plato, in his own such construction restricted to literary form in The Republic understood this as he lamented the impossibility of utopia's realization this side of eternity.