A young girl in Florida murdered her full-term, 9-pound baby last week because “she didn’t want to change the relationship with her mother.” She’s now charged with first-degree murder for allegedly choking her newborn baby to death.
How did the situation get this horrible? I will guarantee there are religious people out there who still believe that sex education in school, easily-accessible birth control, and Plan B without parental permission are worse alternatives than this tragedy. Admittedly it’s an extreme example – just like the cut up babies they show in anti-abortion posters. But the reality is this unwanted baby was murdered – and that could have been avoided if it was not conceived in the first place.
How smug some people are – morally righteous, religiously superior, and philosophically living in a “what-SHOULD-BE” fantasy land. “She should have waited until she was married,” – “She should have put the baby up for adoption,” “She should have been counseled by her minister or priest,” “This morally degenerative society should become less sex-oriented.”
Interesting intellectual thoughts – but the reality is a baby is dead. Not a zygote; not a group of microscopic cells but an unplanned, unloved baby. Every child deserves so much more than what “should be.”