Be Heard

Who's Looking Out for Women of Conscience?

In a week's span, the venerable New York Times has maligned and disrespected American women far more than the anti-abortion activists the Times criticizes for doing just that.

A series of editorials on the recently passed Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which cleared the Congress by a narrow margin, equates charging those who murder pregnant women with two crimes instead of one with hacking away at Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court case that formally legalized abortion. Furthermore, the Times' notoriously libertine editorial board yawps, undermining abortion rights shows a "profound disrespect for women."

Oh really?

How can this be when almost half of all women oppose abortion, according to a 2003 Gallup poll? What the Times conveniently never mentions is that although the statistical majority of women support abortion rights, there is a large minority comprising nearly half of American women who find the elective medical procedure gruesome and repugnant.

And enough with this tripe about pro-lifers being a bunch of right-wing fundamentalist men who want to limit women's options. Most pro-life think tanks have women, not men, at the helm. They're no dummies. They know that this is a women's issue, and as women, they must make their voices heard.

It's a shame that the New York Times isn't listening. Because with its trumped-up charge of disrespect toward women, the Times itself has disrespected tens of millions of women of conscience.

Who's looking out for them?

This mini-torial originally appeared on The Voice of Reason Weblog and the opinions therein represent only those of its creator, although they are intrinsically correct.

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