The Europeans seem to be admired by many Americans.
We drool over their fashion savvy and gawk at their expensive automobiles. We enjoy listening to their musicians and viewing their actors on the screen.
Have you noticed how our friends in the U.K. value life of the unborn? I just finished reading this article about a man who was sentenced after he “tried to kill his unborn child by feeding his wife abortion pills he bought over the Internet.”
The English media doesn’t cover up or overlook issues regarding the value of all human life. In past, I’ve read articles how the medical profession in England frowns upon the practice of abortion. The majority of British doctors wouldn’t dare perform an abortion, and those who do are shunned.
The convicted man in the article is Gil Magira, a millionaire businessman. His defense was he has an obsessive compulsive disorder which gave him a series of bizarre habits.
In America, there would be many who would run to Magira’s side and demand he be aquitted. Judge Oliver Sells saw it differently.
“You knew the risks in using those drugs without the proper medical conditions being in place,” he said when sentencing Magira to four years in jail. “Those risks were serious. There were real risks, both to the mother and to the unborn child.”
The Daily Mail article also features remarks from the victimized pregnant mother, Anat Abraham. She shared how shocked she was and how inhumane Magira’s actions were when her pregnancy was 11 weeks.
“What made it worse was how determined he seemed to be to get rid of the baby I could feel moving … Every day that passed I thought I had bought the baby another day to live,” Abraham said.
Keep in mind, Magira’s actions were not intending to harm Abraham’s life. Yet this article portrays him as inhumane for doing something that is practiced regularly in the United States.
I wonder if the English could be influential in another aspect of American society.