The Subtle Pro-Life Themes Of The Mandalorian

One of the most colossal entertainment surprises of 2019, a year teeming with positive and negative surprises in entertainment, was the reveal of a baby of the same species as Yoda in the first episode of The Mandalorian.  Knowingly or unknowingly, intentionally or unintentionally, the executives behind The Mandalorian have created a series with subtle pro-life themes woven into the core of the narrative.  The reactions to the baby have exemplified a common hypocrisy that some display concerning how the unborn are regarded.

It is ironic that many viewers who adore "Baby Yoda" and disliked the scout troopers who struck it (its gender has not been specified) in the season finale would consider its wellbeing a thing of trivial or no importance if it was in the womb.  After all, the child is just that--a child.  The fact that its 50 year age is significant by comparison to contemporary human lifespans is irrelevant to the fact that 50 years is only the beginning of its species's respective lifespan.

The entire basis of pro-life ideology rests primarily on three logical facts: 1) all humans possess human rights, 2) unborn children in the womb are humans, and 3) arbitrary lines of age and physical development do not revoke human rights.  To defend a child outside of the womb in its youth while approving of the victimization of children in the womb is to pretend like one of these arbitrary line divides amoral abortion from murder, when the same being is killed in either case.

That many people have reacted so fiercely when "Baby Yoda" has been threatened or hunted by other characters shows that at least some of them seem to understand that the child possesses the same rights as any other sentient, intelligent beings.  Of course, if its rights are dictated by its age, location, and size, these rights are not truly enjoyed by all members of its species.  The inevitable ramifications would be that human rights do not apply to all humans--a wholly contradictory position.