Babies Are No Accident

USA Today founder and regular columnist Al Neuharth wrote of the Caylee Anthony murder in USA Today, and was so stupid I can't stand it.

Recap: "the remains of missing 3-year-old Caylee Anthony were found in the woods near her Orlando home. Her birth mother, 22-year-old Casey Anthony, is in jail, charged with murdering her little girl." And all the TV networks have been going crazy covering this story—the great white god of journalism apparently anointed little Caylee for "missing and dead child of the month hullaballoo." (As if thousands of children do not go missing each day and only this one is important.)

Mr. Neuharth decided that this incident is perfect to remind us of a "prime human problem": "Unwanted children by women who get pregnant by mistake" (bold mine).

This is where euphemism becomes doublespeak. You cannot POSSIBLY get pregnant by mistake. How did Casey Anthony become pregnant with Caylee—by eating a cheeseburger?

Now, I appreciate that Mr. Neuharth's second human problem is "wanted children by women who can't get pregnant," and that he says "The best answer for both groups is adoption." Very good. Perhaps that's a brave thing to say. Considering the media world, surely it's brave. Well, brave if you think one deserves a medal for making patently obvious statements in a world where nothing true is obvious. (Yes. That's supposed to sound complicated.)

But at the same time, throwing a bone to the pro-abortion mainstream by using their obviously idiotic idiom is cowardice. There are no "accidental" pregnancies. It's not abnormal for women to get pregnant after sex. It's normal, logical, and biological. It's abnormal to kill a child because you "don't want it." That's why Casey Anthony will go on trial. How schitzophrenic is it to condemn her using language that implicitly condones similar actions?

:runs away screaming: