Walker Percy wrote this comment in an essay called Why Are You a Catholic in the late 80s which is why his abortion figure is way too low. You can read the essay in a book of his essays published posthumously in 1991 called Signposts in a Strange Land.
Percy's comment is especially ironic in view of the recent outcry over the "horrible" shooting of Cecil the lion. The press has spent many times over the ink on Cecil than on the recent expose of Planned Parenthood's callous brutality. Many Americans have sentimentalized Cecil to the point of absurdity, but they have nothing but indifference for the little one in the womb literally ripped limb from limb as we've seen in the videos released by the Center for Medical Progress.Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history. ... It is not "horrible" that over a million unborn children were killed in America last year. For one thing, one does not see many people horrified. It is not horrible, because in an age of theory and consumption it is appropriate that actions be carried out as the applications of theory and the needs of consumption require.
