On 28 December the Catholic Church commemorates what it calls the Holy Innocents, the boys two and under that King Herod ordered murdered in an attempt to destroy the Ruler forecast to him by the Magi.

At the present time our country officially considers acceptable the killing of an unborn child adequately developed in every way necessary to survive outside his or her mother, as it does the killing of one that with near certainty will grow into that same, viable state. The Church declared Herod’s handful of unwitting victims “martyrs,” and I see these more recent millions also as martyrs – to their mothers’ convenience, ambition, alternate plans, or what have you.

I wonder then if the day is not coming when a born child that is deemed inconvenient or “de trop” by his or her mother will be judged legally eligible for extermination at that woman’s whim.

Perhaps, also, children will become capable of turning the tables on unwanted parents and of having them murdered.

The possibilities are manifold – and all in a country founded, literally and in plain writing, on the rights to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

Larry Stanfel

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