Yes: apparently, there is no room for compassion in the US

In an editorial entitled In U.S., there's no room for compassion, The Seattle Times indignantly sermonizes:

You probably know the story. A terrorist group in Nigeria kidnaps nearly 300 schoolgirls. The reason is found in the abhorrent ideology from which it derives its name: Boko Haram — Western Education Is Forbidden. The families of the girls turn to their government for help and it shrugs. The story is likewise ignored in America by “news” media too busy handicapping the chances of Hillary Clinton’s grandchild in the 2054 midterms to bother with anything so picayune as a mass kidnapping.

So supporters take to Twitter with a hashtag: #BringBackOurGirls. It spreads like fire. Michelle Obama, Ellen DeGeneres, Malala Yousafzai, Jesse Jackson, Amy Poehler and millions of lesser-known names all join the campaign.

Does it “solve” the problem? Of course not. Who would be so naive as to think it would? Is it the only thing we should be doing in response? Again, no.

But does the international attention spur Nigeria’s lackadaisical government to take the abduction more seriously and to accept international help — including from the United States — it has previously spurned? Yes. Does the hashtag campaign force media to pay attention to a tragedy that was being ignored? Again, yes. Moreover, it delivers to the parents of these girls the same simple, sustaining message as the cards and texts in the hypothetical above: We are with you.

It’s hard to see how anyone — anyone — could regard that as a bad thing. But at least some political conservatives do. As noted, Limbaugh, Will and the National Review have all pronounced themselves unimpressed. Donald Trump, Ann Coulter and Fox’s Steve Doocy have also made attempts at ridicule. ... [I]n its behavior here, the right does not so much seem estranged from a competing ideology as from its own humanity.

What I find troubling is: while the Left professes its deep concern for young girls in Nigeria, at the same time it is totally unconcerned about the ongoing horrors of partial-birth abortion here in America. The leading lights of Liberalism -- why, we are told, even that great daytime moral philosopher Ellen DeGeneres herself -- wring their hands over the plight of innocents in Africa and bemoan the loss of "humanity" on the Right, while at the same time they turn a blind eye to the grisly slaughter that continues in their own backyard.

Where were all the hashtags of moral outrage when the inhuman practices of the abortionist Kermit Gosnell were being revealed? Isn't partial birth abortion an even more "abhorrent" practice than "Boko Haram?" Isn't it hard to see how "anyone -- anyone --" can countenance such a practice? Why didn't the Left launch a campaign on Twitter at that time to "force the media to pay attention to the tragedy that was being ignored," the tragedy consisting of the almost assembly-line extermination of the unborn and the murder of young mothers that takes place on a daily basis here in our own country?

Until I hear the Left start to advocate on behalf of the innocents in the womb, I will judge their professions of concern for innocent girls in Nigeria to be nothing more than the most disgusting kind of moral hypocrisy. Yes, there is no room for compassion in the US; compassion for the helpless unborn, that is.