I had no problem with the story itself. In the very first line of my report, I described it as "just a throw-away line on a throw-away filler piece."
It's the lack of moral consistency that bothers me. If once, just once, in the course of her career, she had similarly shed a tear for the victims of abortion . . .
I don't think the family who had the man-eating reptile in their pool feel the same. Escpecially if 'mama' decided to show up and decided to protect her baby. =)