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And we live with these horrors because we never see the victims.

The more I read of these cases, the more convinced I am that this is the reason the culture of death we have today seems to be gaining favor with the public. It is all done out of sight and out of mind. The screams are muffled by the spurious legal shroud of "privacy". The blood that is spilled and the limbs torn asunder are left unseen. When the bloody practices are exposed to the light of day (e.g., billboards, or signs placed on trucks), the howls of protest are heard throughout the land ("cruel", or "unnecessary"), precisely because that is what the acts are, but people cover their eyes and ears to them.

The Romans put their bloody acts on public display in the coliseums and at places like Golgotha, and the populace was well aware to the nature of these acts. Today, people are duped into thinking the acts we practice today, while no less bloody and barbaric, are acceptable because they are "choice", or "the wishes of the family". Well, killing is killing, whether it is done on a cross of crucifixion or in the antiseptic rooms of an abortion clinic.

Well put. When human beings are guided by subjective feelings, they can rationalize evil as acting on what they think is best at a given moment in time. If people are guided by objective values, that eternal sense of right and wrong will always make them oppose that which is wrong and lend their support to that which is right. Liberals operate largely on feelings. Conservatives mostly operate on the basis of values. That explains why Congress seemingly disregarded public opinion on the subject. The media, which has played up feelings has ignored and dismissed the larger role of values in how people see social issues in this country.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)