Modern-Day Moses?

What started out appearing as a horror story of one sort became just a sad twist on an old Bible story. A baby once thought to have been tossed from a moving car was actually turned in by the real mother:

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - 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."

Isn't it odd how the story parallels the Biblical story of Moses who was set adrift on the Nile by his Israelite mother (in the vicinity of the Pharaoh's daughter) hoping to save his life from the Pharaoh's edict to have all Hebrew newborn boys killed. The substantial difference today, of course, is that no one had been trying to kill this baby (unless you count the horde of abortion advocates who would have gladly done the deed). The motivation of Moses' mommy we understand. The motivations of this mother are at best conjecture.

At least both stories have a happy ending.