“Growing fury over lion killing”

“Lion’s death provokes tears, anger”

“Why is hunting lions even legal?”

“Hunter regrets actions amid national outcry”

These are just some of the headlines that were catching fire on cable and social media after a Minnesota dentist, Walter Palmer, was identified as the hunter who killed Zimbabwe’s beloved 13-year-old lion named Cecil. PETA’s spokeswoman Ingrid Newkirk said she wants Palmer “extradited, charged and preferably hanged.”

I am blessed to have seen many wild lions up close in Botswana. There was a pride feeding on a young giraffe, adolescents rolling around and playfully nipping at each other in the tall grass, full-grown adults approaching our open-roofed vehicle just to check us out. They were all magnificent.

So after first reading about the crossbow hunting dentist, I thought: What kind of man sees a lion as regal and beautiful as Cecil and thinks to himself — That’s mine. I’m going to kill it. I want that head or that body in my trophy room. I can’t wait to tweet out a photo!

Palmer is now a social media pariah and receiving a stream of death threats. He has apologized to his patients “for the inconvenience” and claims he had no idea the majestic mammal was illegally lured from its National Park in Zimbabwe by the guides he hired. Right, and Hillary didn’t know she was sending classified emails on her private email account. Palmer has a prior felony conviction stemming from his killing of a black bear in Wisconsin. For that he was sentenced to a year of probation and $3,000 fine.

Media outlets mobilize to condemn the death of one lion, but they let out a collective yawn when Planned Parenthood’s caught on camera pricing out baby lungs and livers.

The media hysteria surrounding this story was aimed at one thing — bagging their villain. Zimbabwe’s tyrannical leader Robert Mugabe must be relieved.

The cognitive dissonance is stunning: Media outlets mobilize to condemn the death of one lion, but they let out a collective yawn when Planned Parenthood’s caught on camera pricing out baby lungs and livers. Celebrities also practice selective outrage expression. Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel was literally brought to tears on his show when discussing Cecil’s untimely demise.

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Conservationists are right to fight against sick tribal practices that compel men to chop off the hands and feet of chimps, or the sheer greed that creates graveyards of elephants butchered for their tusks. But isn’t it even more important that we preserve human life as well? Can it be that a Minnesota dentist’s life is ruined because he killed a lion, but Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards suffers nary a rescinded cocktail invitation?

Lions can’t defend themselves against a hunter’s bow or rifle. A baby can’t defend himself or herself against an abortionist’s crushing forceps or vacuum tube. Hundreds of thousands of pre-born babies are turned into medical waste each year, many with their organs harvested for “medical research.” Yet getting the American media to look at this issue honestly is all but impossible.

The same week we see staffers at Planned Parenthood haggling over baby body parts, chit-chatting as tiny hands and hearts slosh around in specimen bowls, the elites’ outpouring of grief and anger centers on a lion two continents away.

I share their sadness for the dead lion. But I will never understand how they can feel no pain over the crushed and broken bodies of innocent children.

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