The American Academy of Pediatrics now wants children to stay “in a rear-facing car safety seat as long as possible.” Sounds good. We should do anything we can to protect young ones.

But why is our society concerned with the well-being of infants when just days before, those same little ones, could be subject to an abortionist’s blade?

Care vs. Horror

General Electric has produced beautiful ads over the years featuring ultrasound technology. A recent one shows a young mother and the GE devices keeping her baby — born five weeks prematurely — alive.

It’s a touching, even arresting ad. A young mother rejoicing that her baby will live. But why are we so moved by her little life and so unconcerned with what could have been her brutal death?

In Waco, Texas, a special program  helps children starting “before each individual mother’s 29th week of pregnancy and goes through the child’s second birthday.” 

Wonderful! But Waco is also home to the Audre Rapoport Abortion Services Center, a local facility of Planned Parenthood. Baylor Scott The great program and the abortionist are only 3.8 miles from each other.

World-class care for babies just over seven months along. Life-ending horror for those same babies just six minutes away.

Tribune Schumer

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer of New York is calling for the Department of Agriculture “to restore public access to the animal inspection reports and enforcement actions.” He explains that “Public access to information about any inhumane treatment of animals at puppy mills, research labs and more is paramount to prevention.”

 Who can be against better care for animals? But this same morally indignant tribune of the Republic wrote just last month in The New York Times that Brett Kavanaugh shouldn’t become a Supreme Court justic because he threatens “abortion rights.”

So, caring for dogs and cats is a matter of human decency, but the “right” to destroy a child in the womb is reason to deny one of the most impressive jurists of our time a seat on the Supreme Court. Thanks, senator, for this sparkling example of ethical clarity. 

Amazon is now marketing a sweet new device called “Bellybuds.” According to the manufacturer, “A baby’s hearing develops in utero at about 20 weeks. Memories begin at 30. Bellybuds is a specialized speaker system that gently adheres to your belly & safely plays memory-shaping sound directly to the womb.”

This is but one of many such products, from “Mozart for Mothers-to-be” to prenatal vitamin supplements the online sales giant offers. Yet we are a society in which sex is seen as little more than entertainment. Consequences, including new little lives, are an annoying afterthought.

Incoherent Refuge

The pro-choice movement speaks incoherently. Incoherence is a refuge for those not wanting to face honestly the contradictions between their beliefs and their practices, their hearts and their minds. But one can only play “pretend” so long. The fall from a cliff might be exhilarating while it lasts. The splat at the end is permanent.

Abortion-at-will is something whose consequences — death and dehumanization among them — we don’t like to think about. But ignoring their reality is like ignoring a meteor about to hit your house.