What’s Worse than Cops Killing Children?

The results of a web search for “children killed” includes articles such as “The 14 Teens Killed by Police Since Michael Brown.”  Most of the children in this article were 18-year-olds.  I found the use of the word “children” a little puzzling here.  Some of us would include 18-year-olds as children, and some of us wouldn’t.  The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child defines “child,” in general, as “a human being below the age of 18 years.”  The killing of these teens by police seems even more tragic when we consider them as children.  How horrific for police officers to kill children, even if they weren’t all so poor and innocent.

But what’s even worse than cops killing 14 children, at least some of whom were probably innocent?  That would be the killing of one million unborn babies each year in this country through abortion.  The arguments for this conclusion include the following:

1) The sheer number of deaths by abortion is thousands of times larger than deaths by police.

2) While some of these teens were not innocent, all of those killed by abortion are, in fact, completely innocent.  There’s no doubt that they have done NO wrong.

3) At least we have laws against the unlawful killing of these teens by police officers.  However, this slaughter by abortion is completely legal.

4) At least these teens were able to live out about 20% of their lives, which were cut short by some 60 or 70 years.  The babies killed by abortion are denied their whole self-sustaining lives on this earth–even their first breath.  Their lives are cut short by some 70 to 80 years.

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