Abortion and the Slippery Slope of Public Morality

From National Review Online:

Abortion and Killing a Newborn: What's the Diffrence

This morning, I read this news article:

ZANESVILLE, Ohio (AP) — A former college student who gave birth in her sorority house was sentenced Monday to life in prison without parole for killing the newborn by throwing her in the trash.

Emile Weaver, 21, was found guilty by a jury last month of aggravated murder, abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence.

Prosecutors said Weaver gave birth in a bathroom at the Delta Gamma Theta sorority at Muskingum University on April 22, 2015, then purposefully caused the death of her baby.

They said the baby girl died from asphyxiation after Weaver put her in a plastic trash bag and left it outside the sorority house.

 Two questions: What in our culture would have let Miss Weaver know that what she ended up doing was wrong?

Also: What is the difference between her act and abortion? I mean, really? What is the difference? Why is one a celebrated “choice” and the other a crime worthy of life in prison?

Indeed it is two good questions. Especially in light of the following:

The Supreme Court has ruled in Roe v Wade that the state has no interest in protecting the life of an unborn child. The fate of the child is solely in the hands of the mother.

There are intellectuals on the left that have seriously argued that a baby doesn't become a person until he or she obtains the age of 3 years (or even longer). One of these intellectuals was the chief medical adviser on Obamacare.

It is assumed that since these babies are "not persons" the mother has the absolute right to kill them.

Justice Kennedy has ruled that a law must have a "rational basis" and that the state has no interest in enforcing a common morality.

Which leads to another questions. What are these people celebrating:



They are celebrating a barbaric practice that no civilized country should be proud of.

They are celebrating the existence of substandard butcher shops that act as "women's health centers", that profit from killing unborn babies while putting the life and health of the mother in danger.

A society is judged by the people it protects and failure to protect the most innocent of life whether unborn or born is an indictment that will haunt us forever.