By now we’ve all seen the picture of this newborn who was tossed out of a car when he was just hours old.

It is, of course, shocking and sickening.

What has struck me in this though is that only a day before, this baby could have been killed under the guise of “choice” quite legally in many states. And rather than a national leading headline, there would have been silence.

Life Steward had the same idea, calling it a “post term abortion.”

UPDATE: This appears to be the case of a lie that spun way out of control.

A woman who claimed to have rescued a newborn boy after he was thrown from a moving car was actually the child’s mother, fabricating the story to conceal her pregnancy, officials said Friday.

The woman, who kept her pregnancy a secret from her family and others, had planned to take the baby to authorities, Broward County Sheriff Ken Jenne said. She then built her story after seeing two people argue inside their car, he said; the baby was never thrown.

“It’s not as horrible as we first thought,” Jenne said. “The baby was never thrown out of a moving car. This is the case of a disturbed woman who gave birth and did not want to keep her child.”

The woman gave birth Thursday afternoon, and an hour later dropped him off at a Broward sheriff’s substation, telling authorities her tale of seeing the boy tossed out of the car, Jenne said.

The 38-year-old woman has not been charged.

“She has indicated that she does not want the child,” Jenne said.

The original point of this post is still completely intact. The news media splashed the story hard, people’s hearts were broken for this little baby, and even though the story turns out to be false, the reaction to this apparent-atrocity, compared to the reaction to the every day real killings that are done just hours on the other side of the birth canal, is sobering and telling.