National Rght to Life
On November 8, we posted a story under the headline, “A tally of 26 murder victims that includes ‘space for one more’–an unborn child.”
I wrote about the awful slaughter of parishioners at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. Sheriffs found the bodies of 22 of the victims in the church “but by their reasoning,” wrote Laurie Goodstein of the New York Times, “one more victim died there — inside the womb of Crystal Holcombe, who was killed in the pews along with three of her five children.”
The story was not primarily about the carnage. It was essentially Goodstein rounding up a veteran pro-abortionist to grouse about Unborn Victims of Violence laws variations of which are on the books in 38 states. Goodstein correctly reminded her readers that the federal law recognizing unborn children as second victims passed in 2004 after a five-year-long battle.
If the Times story was a low point, the high point probably was a touching, tender story that ran this week in the Washington Post: “Family that lost 10 members in Texas church massacre remembered,” by Eva Ruth Moravec.
I dropped Ms. Moravec a line this morning. I told her that her story simultaneously broke my heart and raised my spirits.
Here is her lead:
National Right to Life story continues
I wrote about the awful slaughter of parishioners at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. Sheriffs found the bodies of 22 of the victims in the church “but by their reasoning,” wrote Laurie Goodstein of the New York Times, “one more victim died there — inside the womb of Crystal Holcombe, who was killed in the pews along with three of her five children.”
The story was not primarily about the carnage. It was essentially Goodstein rounding up a veteran pro-abortionist to grouse about Unborn Victims of Violence laws variations of which are on the books in 38 states. Goodstein correctly reminded her readers that the federal law recognizing unborn children as second victims passed in 2004 after a five-year-long battle.
If the Times story was a low point, the high point probably was a touching, tender story that ran this week in the Washington Post: “Family that lost 10 members in Texas church massacre remembered,” by Eva Ruth Moravec.
I dropped Ms. Moravec a line this morning. I told her that her story simultaneously broke my heart and raised my spirits.
Here is her lead:
FLORESVILLE, Tex. — Thousands of mourners said goodbye and celebrated the lives of an extended family that lost 10 of its members nearly two weeks ago in a mass shooting inside their small-town Texas church.
Colorful caskets contained the bodies of three generations of the Holcombe family, from an unborn child and a 1-year-old to the church’s 60-year-old associate pastor. Mourners overfilled an event center here, full of sorrow and of hope, knowing that the members of a deeply faithful family — who had been praising God when killed — were now home in heaven.None of the nonsensical critiques of “counting” an unborn child among the fatalities. Not once but twice she writes about the “unborn child.”
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