Every once in a while I take a web walk on the other side to learn what the pro-choice chattering set has on its mind.
Yesterday's stroll led me to a doozy of an abortion-friendly commentary, courtesy of RH Reality Check, an "online community and publication serving individuals and organizations committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health."
RH Reality Check features writer and author Anna Quindlen as one of its "Leading Voices," along with her August 6th Newsweek column "How Much Jail Time?" Quindlen wants to know what pro-life types think the penalty in jail time should be for women who have abortions if abortion becomes illegal.
Aside from her smug summary of non-answers that a guy with a video camera received from anti-abortion protesters outside of a Liberty, Ill., abortion clinic, Quindlen touts the efforts of the National Institute for Reproductive Health to make this question the "centerpiece of a national conversation, along with a slogan that stops people in their tracks: how much time should she do?"
Quindlen never mentioned that the National Institute for Reproductive Health, which sounds as if it might be a government agency, is actually an offshoot of the abortion advocacy group NARAL Pro-Choice New York. This columnist's and her NIRH pals' question about jail time is just as disingenuous.
It's pure fearmongering from NARAL's marketing brainstormers.
Not only that, Quindlen and the NIRH/NARAL gang failed to consider one group of vocal pro-life women who could easily answer their question "How much time should she do?"
Pro-lifers whose abortions imprisoned them with deep regrets will tell Quindlen and company that they've already done their time.
(c) 2007 Marybeth T. Hagan
Crossposting with http://www.mothermayibeborn.com (August 3 post)
Dishonesty and fearmongering to foster legal abortion? Naw! Never!