Of Cute Babies and Stuffed Lions… Why Cecil Gets All The Attention

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Of Cute Babies and Stuffed Lions… Why Cecil Gets All The Attention

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Mon, Aug, 3rd, 201

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Last week it was almost impossible to escape pictures of Cecil the Lion King and the Minnesota dentist who killed him. The dentist received death threats and had to go into hiding. The story was indeed sad. The lion was lured out of the sanctuary and shot with a bow in the middle of the night… and then suffered for 40 hours before he was finally shot dead.

 

The “hunter” defends his actions, saying he thought what he was doing was legal. The reality is, what he was doing was neither legal nor hunting. It was killing for fun and he used it to try and impress a girl – apparently he failed. It was the lion equivalent of hunting fish in a barrel. I don’t hunt, and I think people who kill great animals for “sport” are probably a bit off kilter. Nonetheless, limited “sport” hunting, as repugnant as it is, can actually help save endangered species. (more) That was not the case with Cecil however.

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Here’s What Cecil The Lion Can Teach Us About Abortion

AUGUST 3, 2015 By Marc Fitch

The deaths of Cecil the lion and America’s 50 million aborted children and counting both speak to the innocence and majesty of life. http://thefederalist.com/2015/08/03/heres-what-cecil-the-lion-can-teach-us-about-abortion/