Human life devalued

Events of the past week have given painful perspective to the values that we have as a people. On the one hand, we have the loud and indignant outrage at the death of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe. On the other hand, we have the deafening silence at the revelation of Planned Parenthood’s strategic crushing of infants being aborted so as to preserve their marketable body parts.

Certainly, Cecil’s killing was wrong, whether it be the callousness of the hunter or the deceit of the unscrupulous guides who took his money, or both. The rush to judgment in the matter diminishes the possibility of an objective investigation. But aren’t Planned Parenthood’s callous and greedy (remember the Lamborghini comment?) activities, its disregard for human life and its value, every bit, if not more, deplorable? Yet, where is the outrage? Where is the disgust at such abject depravity?

If anything, there is more outrage over the means by which the truth of Planned Parenthood’s activity was secured than the acts themselves. This is how badly our values have deteriorated.

We need less repugnance over the death of an animal and more repentance over our devaluation of human life.

David Rachoy

Rathdrum