a pounce of prevention
June 8, 2005 – 1:01 amNineteen year old Gerardo Flores may not have been the sad patsy in his 16 year old girlfriend’s plot to murder her unborn twins which some make him out to be, according to KTRE.com:
“District Attorney Art Bauereiss said Basoria [the girlfriend] was against abortion and got pre-natal care to make sure she’d have a healthy baby.”
“…Basoria had bruises on her arm, leg, and abdomen when she was rushed to the hospital after the miscarriage.”
“Basoria reportedly denied being beaten by Flores, but a Lufkin police officer who talked with her that night said she cried whenever his name was mentioned.”
What’s interesting to me the number of these stories cropping up this year. First there was the Detroit Sluggard. Then came the Texas Stomper. And then a week ago they arrested the Boston Bungler for attempting to pay an undercover cop to assault his girlfriend and end her pregnancy with a knife or baseball bat. He offered to pay in cocaine, presumably having heard an ounce of prevention is worth the pounding cure. Or something like that.
As Reagan, quoting Malcom Muggeridge, said in Abortion and the Conscience of The Nation, “Either life is always and in all circumstances sacred, or intrinsically of no account; it is inconceivable that it should be in some cases the one, and in some the other.” These cases depict the wider cheapening of life which abortion portends. If you can kill them in a clinic, you can kill them at home.
3 Responses to “a pounce of prevention”
The issue is the damage to the mother, not the fetus. The law (and yours truely) doesn’t consider a fetus a life. But you knew that.
By Worldgineer on Jun 8, 2005
Regardless of one’s perspective on abortion, the utter lack of regard for life (in any state - the mother or the fetus) is alarming, in every one of these cases.
By Diva on Jun 9, 2005
Diva:
Thank-you for making that point. That, in a nutshell is why these three stories make me angry. It is disgusting to feel sorry for a guy who would take a baseball bat or boot to his pregnant girlfriend, and merely “tut-tut” about the innaccesibility of abortion. These boyfriends are brutal fools.
By Joel on Jun 10, 2005