Confusing Indeed (and Horrifying)

I admit I didn't watch the Casey Anthony trial, not any of it. I was saddened by the story of 2 year old Caylee Anthony's disappearance and the subsequent discovery of her dead body. I was disturbed by reports that her mother may have been involved in her murder, but I didn't watch any of the trial. When Casey was acquitted of the charges it became apparent that many people must have watched the trial because they were certainly outraged at the miscarriage of justice the verdict represented. How could the jury, they asked, ever find Casey not guilty of such a brutal crime.



Watching CNN this week, I saw a report of the congressional hearing on Child Abuse held by in Washington, DC. On July 12 witnesses testified before the House hearing that deaths of children due to abuse and neglect may be closer to 2,500 than the 1,770 per year actually reported by the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System. Many were outraged at this under reporting and demanded the government do something to end this horrible tragedy.


I want to say emphatically, I am horrified by the death of Caylee Anthony and by the estimated 2,500 other abuse and neglect deaths of children every year. Each one of these children deserve to grow up in families where they can be loved and nurtured, not neglected, abused and even killed. But I find it appalling that this kind of outraged can be expressed by the public, Congress and the media while silence continues to surround the estimated (Gutmacher Institute) 1,200,000 abortions performed in this country every year! That's right 1.2 million abortions each year. These little unborn children deserve to have someone express outrage over their senseless deaths. These little preborn babies need to have someone shout in outrage over the miscarriage of justice that permits them to be slaughtered while still in their mother's wombs.

A few months ago a group posted the above billboard in NYC. It is based upon the statistics of the Chiaroscuro Foundation which show 60% of African American babies are aborted in New York City (2009). The same study found that 41 % of all pregnancies in NYC end in abortion. The response was to label the billboard racist and demand its removal, not to express outrage that the most dangerous place for an African American baby, statistically speaking, is in its mothers womb!

I have to wonder why we are so distressed by abuse that happens to children after they are born and so silent about the abuse that takes 1.2 million lives each year.