I listened, watched, and prayed when I saw the balloon float across Colorado which supposedly carried a six-year-old boy. All the news outlets were intensely focused on this unbelievable story. When the boy was not immediately found, the story turned to eyewitness accounts of something falling off of the balloon. I just wonder what the parents felt like when they heard that. The boy was eventually found alive hiding in the attic. Wolf Blitzer of CNN was rightfully overjoyed along with anyone else reporting it.

Approximately 3,500 babies are aborted every day in America, and I can guarantee you that CNN and Wolf Blitzer never have done any story about that. What about the hundreds of babies that are saved through the pro-life actions of sidewalk counselors or those holding prayer vigils in front of Planned Parenthood? When a baby is saved through 40 Days For Life (251 so far in 21 days) there is no collective sigh of relief from any news source. How many decide not to abort after seeing their own baby in an ultrasound? The answer is thousands every year, but only the close connections to the mother know about it.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH OUR SOCIETY? We should all be hoping and praying for the lives of the unborn just as we did for the boy that everyone thought was in the balloon. The innocent unborn lives deserve the same concern as we give any human outside the womb. It shouldn’t matter if the unborn is one-week old or the born person is 100. They are both equally valuable and should be treated as such by the media and society in general.

Yes, so many topics can be related to abortion. This may sound simplistic, but every story or issue in our society includes people that could have easily been aborted. Every inspirational story about the disabled overcoming odds could have never happened if the parents decided to abort when they found out their baby was disabled.

Usually about once or twice a year in my city a dead baby is found in the trash or dumped somewhere else. The news anchors and reporters relay the story with appropriate grim faces and deep sorrowful voices. I’m not questioning their sincerity, but if the baby was aborted before it was born, they wouldn’t even cover it. The media can’t totally be blamed. Our society needs to view all life the same, whether born or unborn, and then maybe more will see the relationship between so many issues and abortion.