By Holly Gatling
Authorities have set a $50,000 bond on a South Carolina man accused of killing his son’s puppy by taping the dog’s mouth shut and locking it in an outside closet.
Judging by the comments people posted on the WISTV.com website, the local community is utterly outraged.
(To read the whole disgusting news article, click here.)
The importance of this news article to the pro-life movement is that human beings in this country can be legally thirsted and starved to death with little or no public outcry.
But shouldn’t we react in horror when it is a human being who is the victim? Shouldn’t the community be outraged?
Wayne Cockfield, NRLC Vice President for Medical Ethics, said, “All of us are horrified when we see animals tortured and abused. People are outraged and sickened that this poor innocent dog was tortured to death. Yet at the same time the elderly and disabled people, such as Terri Schiavo, suffer the same ghastly fate and that is applauded as somehow good and compassionate.”
Mr. Cockfield, an animal lover himself, noted that the pro-life movement “works for the day when humans have at least as much legal protections as animals.”
Cockfield concluded, “What this country needs is a return to sanity where not only animals are protected from abuse, pain, torture and death, but innocent human beings at all stages of life have these same protections.”