Why?

July 28, 2002

by Charles E. Perry

Over the last month there have been a number of cases of children being kidnapped and murdered. People I speak with are generally outraged about it, and I hear a number of unique and painful punishments proposed, some quite inventive, and others just crude. But the one question I hear constantly is a question no one seems to have an answer for; why this is happening? Well, I’ve given it some thought, and I’ll share my answer with you, but I don’t think you’ll like it much.

I consider children precious, an investment for the future who should be protected. I’m sure most of you reading this feel the same way. But we, as a society, seem not to believe it. Instead of being precious, children are seen as an impediment to a young girl going to college. Far from enriching her life, children will ruin it. Rather than making her rich with their love, children will make her poor. And we, as a society, allow her to remove this impediment from her path, by killing it.

Yes, this is an anti-abortion column. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that child abuse, and the murder of children, has risen since abortion was legalized many years ago. I think it’s the natural result of legalizing abortion. I think we were fools to believe we could allow a woman to kill the child in her womb for any reason, and not expect a lessening of respect for life in general. When you make the life in the womb disposable, is it really that big a step to making life outside the womb disposable as well?

So the sick and diseased minds with a penchant for killing children are validated and emboldened by what we, as a society, allow. He may even think he’s doing the parents a favor in removing this impediment to their happiness and fulfillment. He’s just doing a really late term abortion. We, as a society, are diseased. Society generally exists to protect life, not take it. But we have perverted that and, in doing so, have given the perverts license.

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Charles E. Perry is a freelance writer living in Michigan. He has done a variety of things in his life, including Ward Supervisor at the State of Michigan's Maximum Security Mental Facility. His degree is in accounting, but he discovered writing and now spends his time hunched over a keyboard, hollow-eyed, looking for just the right word. Perry is the author of "How Government Should Work: A Look at the Federalist Papers and the Constitution of the United States," currently pending publication.

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