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Number three is what I did with my kids after hearing. I can’t imagine what those parents are going through.
Number one is the only thought I can come up with in relation to this. :(
About 4,000 Babies are Dismembered and Decapitated in The USA PER DAY By State Sponsored and State Funded Abortions ! About The Shootings Going on in this Country,When This Country Continues with The Contraceptive Mentality and the Promotion, Funding and Acceptance of the Genocide of Abortion,,,it’s Not Shocking at all !
I cannot even begin process this horror – but as Markie Marie Works writes – we dismember and decapitate babies every day in this county – and it is paid for, in part, by the government – our money. I wish there was a roll call every night on every news broadcast, t.v., radio and internet, reading of the names of the babies killed. MAYBE that would stop abortion … Way too long a tragedy -
I find that first cartoon in very poor taste. Its a take on that famous photo of a fireman holding the dead little girl after the Oklahoma City bombing. The child is even positioned like her. I find this very insensitive on the part of the cartoonist, and can’t imagine how the little girl’s mother would feel seeing this.
Collective mourning – the difference between wanted and unwanted human beings.
Painful truth – what the shooter did takes one abortionist about an hour and half when the patients victims are queued up. Wait. I’m wrong. Correction – the abortionist, if skillful, leaves 1/2 his victims dead and the other half walking wounded. He usually walks out the door with cash in hand for the day’s work. if not skillful, he runs away and let’s lawyers and paramedics and emergency rooms clean up his mess.
As Michael Douglas said in the movie Wall St. “Greed – is good.” Douglas certainly thought so – he went back for sequel seconds. Abortionists think so, they bunch up patients for profitability.
A vacuum aspiration cannula is just as deadly as a Sig Sauer and used far more frequently to wipe out innocent children. Both are completely inanimate objects which require an operator – a human.
None of those poor children deserved to die, but that statement also applies to all those killed through elective abortion.
Praying the violence of mass-shooting celebrity ceases.
Praying the violence of abortion ceases.
Maranatha – Come, Lord Jesus.
My husband and I were just like that one cartoon. We both met my kindergartner at the bus stop and gave him a huge hug.
Mary,
I tend to agree with you on the first cartoon, because that’s exactly what struck me. The child is positioned exactly as tiny Bailey Almon was in the now “famous” photo, and Uncle Sam is positioned the same as the firefighter carrying Bailey. She had just turned a year old, less than a week before she was killed. I only HOPE her mother Arin never sees this “cartoon”.
*I was sitting on my couch that day, holding a sleeping 6 month old (I used to do child-care in the home I shared with my grandmother) when I felt the rumble, and the glass pane in the kitchen door rattled. I knew SOMETHING had happened, so I turned on the t.v., and that’s where I heard the news about the bombing. Our house was 25 MILES east of Oklahoma City at the time…that’s how powerful the blast was.*
Hi Pamela,
I can’t even imagine the force of that explosion that you would feel it where you live.
While I understand the point the cartoonist is trying to make and I’m sure did not intend to be so insensitive, I find it in very bad taste.
Little Baylee’s mother said that in addition to her daughter’s death she was very traumatized by the constant display of her daughter’s picture. Like you, I hope she never sees this cartoon.
Was inundated with Obama’s address during SNF, and I actually listened even though I (a) don’t watch news coverage on this or other mass violence and (2) generally can’t stomach hearing Obama’s blah blah blah. Without directly quoting, he said that caring for/protecting our children is our greatest duty, that society can be judged by how we do so, etc … But he also said, whether intentional or not, something to the effect of “from that first cry” (as in when they are born). I honestly tried to keep an open mind, attempting to take him as kindly as possible. His words were indeed beautiful, but if he truly believes them, I cannot imagine how he continues to embrace abortion.
Was not recording Obama’s address, so I could be wrong, but did he just quote Ecclesiastes 11:5? And can you guess which part he seemed to omit?
Ecclesiastes 11:5 ….
5 As you do not know the path of the wind,
or how the body is formed[a] in a mother’s womb,
so you cannot understand the work of God,
the Maker of all things.
LifeJoy, those of us who don’t want abortion to be outlawed by the government, do indeed believe in protecting our children. We’re just like you, except for the abortion thing.
Hal – “Except for the abortion thing” would be a giant difference. I understand pro-aborts love their born children. But how can they reconcile the major distinction in the protection they deserve 5 minutes before and 5 minutes after birth? Even IF they consider in utero humans to be only “potential” – even potential to be that person you so dearly adore seems valuable enough to give safe harbor to. I do try to understand, honestly, why there are no contradictions to you.
Ok, so I think I’m wrong now on the Ecclesiastes thing. Sorry. Should always wait to read the transcript.
Mary,
Respectfully, I see the first cartoon differently. The artist is linking the events and is making Bailey the personification of the slaughter of innocents. That iconic photo from Oklahoma City already elevated that baby past the level of individual tragedy and caused us all to adopt her as one of our own family. She belongs to the nation and to the ages now. This cartoon doesn’t mock her or cheapen her tragedy. It shows how much she belongs to us all.
Hi Gerard,
I’m sorry I must disagree. I don’t see this as mockery or deliberate insensitivity on the part of the cartoonist, but rather as disrepectful to Baylee’s mother.
We may view Baylee as some kind of ”personification of the slaughter of innocents” but none of us has the right to determine that Baylee personifies anything without first consulting her mother. At least show the woman that much respect and consideration.
As a mother myself, I can’t even imagine someone using the picture of my dead and mangled child as the basis of a political cartoon, however noble their intent.
She may belong to the ages and all of us now, but she is first and foremost someone’s child.
“…none of us has the right to determine that Baylee personifies anything without first consulting her mother”
I’m with Gerard on this one Mary. It’s too late, it’s already happened. That image strikes a chord in all of our hearts. We all mourn with Baylee’s mother.
She may find some comfort however in knowing that her sacrifice may cause hearts of men and women around the world to soften and seek ways to prevent the escalation of senseless violence around us.
God Himself has held out the battered and bloody image of His Son Jesus as an antidote for our corrupt, decaying, sin-sick world.
“She may find some comfort however in knowing that her sacrifice may cause hearts of men and women around the world to soften and seek ways to prevent the escalation of senseless violence around us.”
Sacrifice? She didn’t sacrifice her daughter, there was no willingness there. She was murdered. If God exists he chose to sacrifice his son, it’s not comparable to a little girl being murdered and her parents having to live with that for the rest of their lives. I hope she does get some comfort though.
I do agree with Mary that the cartoon was in poor taste. But maybe the cartoonist asked permission? Probably not. I know if it were my child I wouldn’t want his or her death to be used to make statements about other tragedies, but that’s just me personally.
Sorry Ed H,
NO we do not mourn with Baylee’s mother as we have no concept of what her anguish was and will always remain. We mourn the loss of a child, she mourns the loss of HER child. Big difference.
To you Ed H its an image, to her mother its the picture of her broken and dead child that will forever haunt her. She may find comfort? Well what if she doesn’t? What if this just adds to her torment?
The sacrifice I speak of Jack is that which most (some? a few?) of us do as part of the grieving process. We’ve all suffered loss. And Mary’s right, I can’t imagine what it would have been like to have had one of my sons taken from me at a young age.
I did lose a brother however. He was born on New Year’s Eve. My mother’s OB GYN was in another emergency room with his own son who had sustained some type of accident. So the call was made to the doctor on call.
He was at a New Year’s Eve party, drunk. My brother suffered cerebral palsy because of the gross negligence and deriliction of the doctor.
My brother suffered for years before finally taking his own life.
I’m sure we all have similar stories. No one gets a free pass when it comes to suffering.
Some years later, a young 12 year old girl in our church lost her brother to suicide. She shared with me how other people’s attempts to console her did not ring true. “He’s in a better place now” was too shallow for this deep thinking young girl. All I could offer her was the only thing I could do when I was in her situation. The burden of grief was too big. I found I couldn’t carry it. I had to lay it at the foot of the Cross. I had to give it to God.
Jesus is the Healer of the brokenhearted. His Spirit is called Our Comforter. I found peace when I gave up “my right” to know why and allowed God to be God.
It would have been considerate if the artist had sought permission to utilize the image of her daughter’s unspeakable tragedy. And I guess this is where we disagree. Like Gerard pointed out, her image is seared into our nation’s conscience. Whether it haunts her or not, it speaks to the suffering we all face. We all have crosses to bear.
We all suffer and mourn. We’ve all suffered tragedy. That’s what speaks to me when I look at this artist’s work.
Hi Ed H,
I am very sorry to hear of your personal tragedy. You are so right, no one has a pass on suffering.
However, I would never presume to take your personal tragedy and make it the basis of a political cartoon or to make a statement of some kind. I can’t think of anything more crass and insensitive. That’s the point I was making.