Unfortunately, though, it is the unborn that have continued to lose. Even as the number of abortions are continuing to drop nationwide – 31,000 fewer abortions last year – and while 53 abortion clinics closed in 2015 alone, black children are still being aborted at five times the rate of white children.

As this is a year of elections, seeing another one surface shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. But a challenge to the seat held by Judge Jay Caraway on the Second Circuit Court of Appeal is a surprise given the overwhelming esteem in which he’s held by the legal community and beyond.

The list of public offices up for election this fall is long and includes, among others, parish police juries, tax assessors, clerks of court, sheriffs and state lawmakers. Doubtless we’d like all of those elected to these positions to have some experience in the job they’ve been entrusted to perform by voters.

“A friend of my mother’s got that recipe from her friend that has since past away and they made that for my rehearsal dinner, when I got married,” he said. “The beautiful thing about the bread pudding is that is the cheapest thing to make that you can find.