What else should we expect?

I know I've used this picture in a post not long ago, but it seems more pertinent than ever after reading this MSNBC news article. It is a report of a newborn who survived being tossed down an 8-story trash chute because the child landed on a giant pile of garbage that had accumulated after a trash compacter jammed.

The baby - a boy - not only survived, but was uninjured in the fall. He has been taken to a New York hospital, where he is in stable condition. The mother, who is 18 years old, hid her pregnancy from her family. A neighbor is quoted as saying, "It's a shame because she's a very sweet child. She was probably scared to death."

The baby was probably a "very sweet child" and "scared to death", too, but that wasn't mentioned.

I contend that tossing a newborn into the trash is a logical outgrowth of a society that values life so little that abortion on demand - even late-term abortions, and even the ghastly "partial birth" abortions - are considered legitimate medical procedures. As I said in another post, found here, "When scissors are used to kill a baby whose head has not yet emerged from the vaginal canal, we call it a late term or partial birth abortion; when they are used after the baby fully emerges, we call it murder."