“What happened to our respect for life?”

Wichita, Kansas—On June 23rd, as stabbing victim LaShanda Calloway lay dying on the floor of a convenience store, five shoppers, including one who stopped to take a picture of her with a cell phone, stepped over the woman, police said.

The June 23 situation, captured on the store's surveillance video, got scant news coverage until a columnist for The Wichita Eagle disclosed the existence of the video and its contents Tuesday.

"It was tragic to watch," police spokesman Gordon Bassham said Tuesday. "The fact that people were more interested in taking a picture with a cell phone and shopping for snacks rather than helping this innocent young woman is, frankly, revolting."

…It took about two minutes for someone to call 911, he said.

Calloway, 27, died later at a hospital.

…The district attorney's office will have to decide whether any of the shoppers could be charged, Bassham said.

It was uncertain what law, if any, would be applicable. A state statute for failure to render aid refers only to victims of a car accident.

Wichita Police Chief Norman Williams told the newspaper…"This is just appalling, I could continue shopping and not render aid and then take time out to take a picture? That's crazy. What happened to our respect for life?"

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Frankly, though this is very sad—I am not too surprised that the shoppers stepped over her—this is the kind of world that we live in today. People do not value life anymore. Just look at how our mainstream culture has found it a woman’s “right” to abort her innocent unborn child—and the rest of us just stand by in silence as 400 humans are sucked from their mother’s womb everyday in the USA-land of the free, home of the brave. It sounds graphic but it is true. We should all be ashamed.

"But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child - a direct killing of the innocent child - murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love, and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts. Jesus gave even his life to love us. So the mother who is thinking of abortion, should be helped to love - that is, to give until it hurts her plans, or her free time, to respect the life of her child. The father of that child, whoever he is, must also give until it hurts. By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems. And by abortion, the father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility at all for the child he has brought into the world. That father is likely to put other women into the same trouble. So abortion just leads to more abortion. Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching the people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. That is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion. "
~ Mother Teresa