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Two things have happened to me in the past few weeks that may seem unrelated, but have become connected for me.

One is a video that has gone viral on YouTube; as of my writing, it has over 13 million views. It is of a fireman saving a kitten from a burning building.

The other is the story of an abortionist who takes photos of pre-born babies she has aborted. Her reason for doing so is that the parents can then remember the “birth” of the aborted baby.

Now, I know the stories seem unconnected, but for me they seem to be an eerie display of the value our culture places more on animals at times than the pre-born.

Most people believe that people are worth more than animals, with the exception of those who are anti-speciest, who believe that people and animals have equal value. But I don’t think too many people would say that people are worth less than animals.

When we live in a world that is moved by the rescue of a small kitten, yet remains largely unmoved by the daily barbaric killing of pre-born children, something seems very wrong.

This disregard towards the unborn finds its epitome in the fact that some parents are not only willing to kill their pre-born children, but to have photographs taken of the murdered baby as a memento.

The connections between the two stories only solidify for me a trend I have seen when working with graphic images of abortion on college campuses.

Many people are so numb to abortion that they either try their best to make some sly (or sometimes sickening) comment, or try to not look at what abortion is.

Both of these stories deal with images, one of which is of a kitten fighting for its life, the other of babies who have been aborted.

Why is it that so many people look at the aftermath of an abortion and are unmoved, yet 13 million people have been moved by the sight of a kitten being saved?

To be clear, there is nothing wrong with the fireman saving the kitten (as long as he removed the people from the building first), and nothing wrong with liking this video.

But before we get too excited about saving kittens, maybe we should first feel overwhelmed as a culture with the 50+ million children and counting who have been murdered since Roe v. Wade [1973].

[Alycia Hartley | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 10/1/13; LifeNews Note: Alycia Hartley writes for Secular Pro-Life. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/10/01/societys-mixed-up-priorities-moved-by-kitten-rescue-numb-to-abortion/ ]