Vita Brevis

. . . so get with it!

Wednesday, October 22, 2003

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, but the media . . .

The ODT version of The Denver Post has an interesting front page. There are only two items above the fold. On the left side of the page is a touching photo of a little girl looking plaintively at the casket containing the remains of her friend - a four year old girl who had been killed by her mother last week*. On the right side of the page is the banner headline "'Partial Birth' Ban Approved".

So why is it that the when a woman kills the child she conceived roughly 50 months ago it's a tragedy, but when a woman kills a child she's conceived, say, 37 weeks ago, it's so normative that any effort to stop it is mocked and belittled?

*The deranged woman also killed her son. She is in need of many prayers.

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