A Case of Bad Timing?

I don't know about the rest of the country, but if you live in Central Florida, you have been treated to an overwhelming amount of news coverage concerning the plight of Casey Anthony. I, for one am getting rather tired of this. It seems to be a lot of overkill if you ask me.

At the corner stoplight near my home, we now have red light cameras. Now, if I make an error in timing and miss the yellow light, the camera takes my picture and I am fined. I assume this is a pretty steep fine because a lot of people seem to be having a fit about these cameras. Regardless, my punishment is a fine. Why is it then, that if this court case against Casey goes as expected, she is not judged as being guilty of a timing error, given a fine, and sent on her merry way.

Many, many people in this area (and I assume around the country, but I know what they say about assumptions, so that may not be the case) are up in arms about the fact that this young woman may have killed her preschool daughter. A large number of these people are the same ones who would diligently defend Casey's right to murder Kaylee years earlier. As long as Kaylee was still in the womb and had not made it completely out before an abortion was attempted, our laws assert that the murder would be legal. To me, that makes this case about timing. Casey evidently waited too long to kill her daughter.

But just how long should we give a young woman to decide if she really wants to be a mom or not. Some women desperately want to be a mom long before it ever happens. Some never want the job. Some come to the realization that they are not cut out for the sacrifices only after they experience the reality. Why is it that our government has okayed a woman's ability to kill her child in the womb, but won't allow her the same freedom afterward? Just what has changed?

I know some people think that it is the baby's location that makes all the difference. Not true. There are children who survive abortion attempts and are left without food or medical attention for hours until they die. In a partial birth abortion the baby is all but delivered before it is killed.

Maybe it is the mom's desire to have a baby that makes the difference. Nope. There are still young ladies who do not want to raise a child, but choose to give birth and put their baby up for adoption. Besides, isn't the whole problem with Ms. Anthony that she decided that she no longer wished to be a mom?

It seems only logical to me that if it is okay to allow murder at any stage of life, then we must allow it for all stages. Of course, this could prove to be very hard on those "terrible twos" whose mom is having a bad day. Right now, it seems that it is only God's common grace that is keeping us from this place, but if He should remove His hand of protection, very few of our children may make it to adulthood. Maybe Casey Anthony is guilty of nothing more than bad timing and an attempt to cover it up, but I hope that we can see that this case is about so much more, and that we would start asking ourselves the tough questions. What time is the right time to kill your baby?