Comments on: WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT ‘APRIL’S MOM?’

By: skippy

skippy — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:45:19 +0000

thanks for the link, ed.! but i believe you meant the “pre-life” movement.

By: humkev

humkev — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:10:31 +0000

“There will be those who will seek to denigrate the pro life movement because one of their own was temporarily successful in playing to their most heartfelt beliefs. Can’t imagine what angle they would use but I’m sure they will come up with something appropriately inane. And I don’t believe that pro-lifers need be defensive about anything.”

Well, heck I’ll be one of “those” if you don’t mind. I’ll denigrate them for their supposedly moral stance that leads to murders, lies, violence, destruction, and hatred. I’ll denigrate them for being the historic hypocrites that they are by calling themselves pro-life while supporting gun violence and war overwhelmingly. I’ll denigrate them for caring waaaaaaaaay more about miniscule masses of cells than about the humans walking next to them. I’ll denigrate them for not understanding why a hurtful and complex hoax like this makes them all look like Octomom-ish lying fundamentalist psychos.

And really, the pro-lifers shouldn’t be defensive about anything? Just keep telling yourself that, oh conscience free one.

By: shorty

shorty — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:14:35 +0000

If snake oil salesmen were arrested, wouldn’t Al Gore be in jail?

By: busboy33

busboy33 — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 08:21:19 +0000

Rick, the fact that you can find somebody who said something doesn’t make it reflective of “The Left”. This is the internet — you can find somebody to say anything. Usually with plenty of grammar errors too. Pointing to a blogger as the face of the Left is as silly as saying Randall Terry speaks for The Right — more silly when you consider how many people identify with Operation Rescue as compared to identify with a blogger.

By: Drongo

Drongo — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:27:42 +0000

Oh, and feminists who were pro-any-choice;

http://feministblogs.org/tag/sarah-palin/

http://www.feministing.com/archives/010762.html

The predominant theme in feminist blogs seems to be “What you choose is up to you, but what I choose should be up to me”.

By: Drongo

Drongo — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:20:45 +0000

“”http://ruleofreason.blogspot.com/2008/09/palins-down-syndrome-child-and-right-to.htm”"

That’s a libertarian Randian, as you should be able to tell, not a liberal.

“http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/08/left-hits-new-l.html”

And that’s a lunatic quoting an anonymous commentator.

So, where are those mainstraem (or even extreme) leftists who were saying that Palin did something wrong by not having an abortion?

By: scarshapedstar

scarshapedstar — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:16:31 +0000

Nothing says “left-of-center” like a site named “The Center for the Advancement of Capitalism” that endorses a book named “The Myth of the Robber Barons” and just wrote their 61st “Objectivist roundup”.

Heh-indeedy. If that’s the best you can do then you, sir, fail.

By: ignatov

ignatov — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:16:13 +0000

“There will be those who will seek to denigrate the pro life movement… I’m sure they will come up with something…”

Pointing out the sins of others before they occur? Real nice, Rick. We’ll call that “pre-emptive accusery.”

Not at all. I know the left. This one is particularly inventive:

http://xnerg.blogspot.com/2009/06/crazy-person-fools-crazy-people-making.html

ed.

By: bonk

bonk — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:22:46 +0000

“some who mercilessly criticized Palin for not aborting her baby once it was clear the child would be born with Down Syndrome”

Who, exactly? Do you mind linking to these folks? I assume we’re not talking about just message board trolls here, right? But actual bloggers/commentators/etc. representing a fairly mainstream left-of-center viewpoint?

30 secs of googling:

http://ruleofreason.blogspot.com/2008/09/palins-down-syndrome-child-and-right-to.htm

And why not commenters? Are they left wing or not? Doesn’t seem to matter to the left how prominent someone is when they say that the right promotes “hate speech:”

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/08/left-hits-new-l.html

Lots more where those came from.

Tell you what. You find a feminist (outside of Paglia) who came out in public and supported her choice to have the child. Now that would surprise me.

ed.

By: scarshapedstar

scarshapedstar — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:47:30 +0000

Nobody ever lied about having an abortion to seem holier-than-thou, and nobody ever bombed an anti-abortion ultrasound/counseling clinic. But plenty of “pro-life” conservatives end up sneaking their daughters or themselves into Planned Parenthood when the time comes.

Meanwhile, we’re just two assassinations away from ensuring that anyone whose baby, say, ends up with its umbilical cord wrapped around its neck and dies in utero in the seventh month is forced to walk around with a dead, limp baby bouncing around her womb; anyone whose baby develops with organs outside its body is forced to deliver a doomed child and watch it die.

What a great country.