Despite my differences with Mary Cheney on other issues, I found her quote, from today's New York Times, touching:
"When Heather and I decided to have a baby, it was not going to be the most popular decision ever," Ms. Cheney said, referring to her partner of 15 years, Heather Poe.She then gestured to her middle - any bulge disguised by a boxy jacket - and asserted: "This is a baby. This is a blessing from God. It is not a political statement. It is not a prop to be used in a debate by people on either side of an issue. It is my child."
Cheney made that statement at a college event hosted by pro-abortion Glamour magazine, which I'll be surprised to see included in its coverage.
[Photo from New York Times]
I'm sorry to play the Grinch here, but being pro-life means more than making one statement that one unborn child--one's own--is a baby and a blessing from God. I'm glad Mary Cheney feels this way about her baby. But she isn't pro-life if she thinks abortion is "a woman's choice" and "should be kept legal" and all the rest. Does she? I've not researched it, but her loud-voiced previous stance as opposed to her father's politics would lead one to think so. Perhaps it shd. be researched. But until then, if the only evidence in favor of the claim that she is "pro-life" is this one statement (which, let's face it, is _clearly_ an attempt to use her child to shield her from criticism for the way in which she conceived him and the home into which she is going to bring him), could we put a question mark after "pro-life" in that title?
And as she said, "It is not a prop to be used in a debate by people on either side of an issue. It is my child." There always babies when these women want them, but a "blob of tissue" when they don't.