Saturday, December 18, 2004

Baby cut from womb found alive by police

From WorldNetDaily, although in fact it's been all over even the MSM.

The particulars are beyond anything I would ordinarily put on a family-friendly blog--and also beyond any previous police or medical experience. A young mother had been corresponding with someone on-line, through Internet chat. Yesterday (Friday, December 17), the chatter paid the mother a most unfriendly visit--not only choking her to death but also cutting her eight-months-developed unborn daughter out of her womb! The sheriff of Skidmore, MO, where this atrocity occurred, insisted on calling an Amber Alert, and even went so far as to call the US Representative from his district. (This rather adds new meaning to the phrase "constituent services"!) The Amber Alert went out, and not only was the chatter found, arrested, and charged, but the baby was found safe and fighting gamely for life. She's in a hospital in Topeka, KS (the chatter had evidently taken her across State lines) and is expected to live about as well as any one-month-premature newborn might live.

What's the moral--other than, again, be careful whom you chat with on the Internet? How about this: Tell me again that an unborn child is not a person worth protecting. The sheriff seemed to think so, his congressman agreed with him. and their swift action paid off handsomely--or perhaps I should say "prettily." This case will surely be very difficult for pro-abortion activists to live down.