If someone like Rosemary McLeod (January 29) feels moved to say smashing in
the heads of baby animals is ‘vile’, why has she nothing to say about smashing
in the heads of baby humans, which is precisely what happens in an abortion
procedure?
Is it because we don’t see abortions happening? No, because we didn’t see
Ewen Macdonald bash those calves either. We read about it in the paper. But we
don’t read about smashing babies’ heads in the paper.
It’s hard to avoid the inference that McLeod and other columnists do
stories about people killing baby animals because they know we’re okay with it.
That’s just a question of schadenfreude. But when it comes to killing baby
humans en masse, it’s a question of guilt en masse and we
don’t want to think about it.
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