by Judie Brown, President/co-Founder
American Life League
“There
should be a zero tolerance policy in the NFL (National Football League) when it
comes to domestic violence involving women and children” was the opinion of one
commentator on the September 15 Anderson Cooper 360 CNN news report. These
comments came in response to the Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson scandals in the
news this past week. Rice allegedly knocked out his then fiancée (now wife)
several months ago. Peterson allegedly whipped his four-year-old child with a
switch and drew blood.
Every
case of domestic violence is a case of criminal proportions that should be
prosecuted to the full extent of the law, be it abuse of a female or the abuse
of a child. Today’s news stories make clear that the situation is grave and
that incidents of domestic abuse are not on the decrease.
But
these sad commentaries on current domestic violence cases are not the only
thing that troubles this pro-life leader. In fact, they are merely the tip of
the iceberg. Allow me to examine what is beneath the veneer of such reporting
by the media.
I
believe that these tragic situations receive the attention of the news media
because they are not only horrendous, but assist the media in hiding behind the
false concern they express for women and children in such cases as they
blithely look the other way when it comes to expectant mothers and their
preborn children. Mainstream media does not define the act of abortion—the
ultimate child abuse—as an act of violence because the law states that these
preborn babies are not human beings. By the same token, the abortionist who maims
or often kills a patient is rarely exposed by the press unless, of course, a
practitioner as vile as someone like Gosnell can no longer be ignored.
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