We Only Favor Retroactive Abortion

Both of these posts are a day old. Sadly, the comments I'm highlighting are still up.

Mother who had baby in car with mobile meth lab pleads guilty to felony

Apparently rehab is only for the rich and famous. Another police-blotter story, a little farther north:

Homicide suspect could be responsible for several Flint shootings this year, Chief Alvern Lock says

The people in these articles have done horrible things, but they are not animals. Furthermore the kid's parents are not mentioned at all, and without information any attack on them is baseless.

 I'm always disturbed by how easily people can reclassify others as subhuman, and how often they assume that [fill-in-the-blank undesirables] constitute a static group that can be eliminated with no effect on nice people like them. Eugenics: Now that's Pure Michigan.