We are aborting babies at five months on one floor of this hospital, while fighting to save five-month-old babies on the next...

 

Letter of the Day

Guess who's behind both industries? The real question is, Why?[*]

RECENTLY, U.S. activist Gregg Cunningham presented graphic photos of aborted babies at a local high school. Henry Morgentaler was quick to denounce the presentation as "propaganda that is completely repulsive."

As a member of the media, I simply could not swallow Morgentaler's statement. After all, this is the generation that drops $40 to $60 bucks on gory, violent video games; that pays $12.50 to watch actor Anthony Hopkins eat someone's brains on the silver screen; that pays $15 bucks for an Eminem CD which fantasizes the rape and murder of women.

We in the news media have gone to great lengths to expose the horror of genocide such as in Nazi Germany, Rwanda, or Yugoslavia by capturing horrific, graphic images of some of the last century's worst evils. Rightly so. But while media members have risked their lives for these images, we have turned our backs on the horrific, graphic photos which portray mutilated, dismembered, and chemically burned babies.

The pictures show they are not just blobs of cells. They are babies, with eyes, hands, toes, hair and nerves. The pictures tell the truth, as does the biological evidence, or the testimony of nurses who admit "we are aborting babies at five months on one floor of this hospital, while fighting to save five-month-old babies on the next."

The pictures reveal that Canadians have allowed the destruction of millions of babies in our midst. It is easy to show the horrible things citizens in far-away places are doing to each other. But our bravest journalists in search of the facts (isn't that our job?) are in denial, refusing to do the unpopular: confront the truth of abortion. It may cost a job.

Certainly, it will reap persecution from fellow workers. So it's more convenient to ride the popular wave. But the media is mute. The cameras aren't clicking. The microphones are silent. Nobody is willing to tell the story.

Mark Mallett
CFRN-TV

[* This website provided the caption ]