Infanticide and Abortion: Fruits of the Same Tree
5/25/2006
By Cara Cook
Discarded baby girl found in California.

Commentary
The newborn girl was carefully wrapped in two plastic bags and tossed over a fence into a ravine in Alhambra, California. She did not survive the 53-feet fall.

This horrifying case of infanticide, uncovered in March, produced a wave of alarm and emotion from Alhambra natives, who named the baby Therese Rose and lovingly organized a funeral service for her. It's hard to imagine anyone not moved by the baby's heartless murder and, in contrast, the tender response of the people of Alhambra.

However, too often outrage over an infant's senseless homicide stops short when she is still in the womb. The little girl who died in the ravine was a few hours old. Did those few hours really make her a person?

The "pro-choice" community is not consistent when it labels infanticide as immoral. One of its underlying assumptions is that the unborn is not a human person. When did Therese Rose become one? the rest