The following contains major spoilers for X-Men #12, available now from Marvel.
The mutants of the Marvel Universe have spent decades fighting for their place in the world. Over the years they have faced superpowered assailants as well as ordinary bigots, yet nothing has kept them from making a name for themselves. Of course, all their achievements have been hard-earned, but they might lose everything as their greatest accomplishment of all threatens to set fire to mutant rights.
X-Men #12 (by Gerry Duggan, Pepe Larraz, Marte Gracia, Tom Muller, Jay Bowen and VC's Clayton Cowles) finds the team reeling on multiple fronts. The most personal being Cyclops and Synch, who recently wiped the knowledge of mutant kind's resurrection process from the famed reporter, Ben Urich's mind. The two have come face-to-face with Urich once more, but, this time they return the information and let him go public. Unfortunately, that genuine and benevolent gesture is likely to do far more harm than good.
As much as it may seem like this is the right thing to do, it would likely open Krakoa up to a familiar kind of pushback that they had worked so hard to get rid of. Announcing to the rest of the world that mutants have conquered death itself isn't just a shocking development, it is also the perfect reason for anti-mutant terrorists such as Orchis, to strike fear in humanity.
Mutants have spent most of their existence being hunted and persecuted by people who feared and hated them. This was never more apparent than in the gut-wrenching events of 1982's God Loves, Man Kills (by Chris Claremont and Brent Anderson). Humanity had proven to be a more difficult threat to quell than any other, largely due to the one-sided nature of many of their confrontations. Fighting back had often led to the X-Men looking more like villains than victims, especially to those who are already petrified of them. With their immorality now public, those same scared citizens will be even more fearful of a mutant takeover and being "replaced".
Mutants may have their own homes on Krakoa and the planet Arakko (formerly Mars), but it will only be a matter of time before those safe havens aren't so tranquil. If their human enemies decide that resurrection is a power that no one should have, they could easily launch an attack on either of their home bases. Then again, they might consider resurrection to be something that mutants shouldn't have just for themselves, despite it only being possible for them at the moment.
Humanity has a long history of weaponizing mutants through operations such as Weapon X. Should Cerebro or similar technology fall into the wrong hands, Krakoa won't be the only nation gifted with eternal life for much longer. With any luck, the X-Men will be able to alleviate whatever concerns humanity may have before they become a new wave of anti-mutant activists. If not, mutant kind's near-eternal life could be coming to a halt before they know it.