Infanticide is unfortunately not uncommon

The trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell has awoken many of us to the reality of infanticide.  In a column for USA Today, Mark Rienzi, an associate professor of constitutional law at Catholic University of America, discusses how the killing of babies less than a year old has become more common and argues that a culture which embraces abortion can quickly forget the value of human life. 

While murder rates for almost every group in society have plummeted in recent decades, there's one group where murder rates have doubled, according to CDC and National Center for Health Statistics data — babies less than a year old.

That's why a much less comfortable answer is probably closer to the truth: Gosnell's actions are readily explainable by a culture that embraces, and in some quarters celebrates, abortion as a constitutional right. Gosnell made his living by performing legal abortions, many of them late in the pregnancy. Is it really all that surprising that he might not have seen a significant moral difference in performing the abortion a few inches inside the birth canal rather than somewhere outside? .......

It could be that the teaching power of abortion law is eroding more than the moral sense of doctors. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, infant homicide is shockingly common. Its most recent 2002 report suggests that the day a person is born is, by far, the most likely day for them to be killed.

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