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The Truth Hurts
Part One of Three By Dave Andrusko Part Two is a release from Congressman Chris Smith's office about the involvement of the Obama administration in the formation of a new pro-abortion constitution in Kenya. Part Three is a request that you vote online against a proposal to legalize assisted suicide in Scotland. "National Right to Life News Today" (www.nationalrighttolifenews.org) presents more data from a report why physicians who are inclined to become abortionists don't. Please send me your thoughts at daveandrusko@gmail.com. If you like join all those who are now following me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/daveha. I, of course, don't expect pro-abortionists to be happy that Nebraska passed a potentially agenda-shifting law known as the "Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act." Nor do I expect them to give us--or the vast majority of the American people--credit for believing that it is beyond barbaric to tear apart unborn babies capable of feeling pain. But I would argue that even by the tortuous logic that powers the pro-abortion mind, attributing our motivation to "misogyny" (hatred of women) is a stretch. (See Armanda Marcotte at www.rhrealitycheck.org blog.) But let's just put that aside for now--such a venomous stream-of-consciousness conclusion is impervious to reason or rebuttal.
Nancy Keenan has had a bad few months. The President of NARAL not only has had to deal with an energized pro-life Movement proposing (and in many cases passing) protective legislation, she also gave an interview to Newsweek where she clearly expressed frustration and befuddlement that our Movement is running over with young people. Yesterday in a post on Huffingtonpost.com, Keenan used the accumulated bad news to rally her troops. I hope we continue to provide her with lots and lots of "bad news" to share with her supporters. Again, it's her right to whale on the "anti-choicers" in the Nebraska legislature in general, NRLC State Legislative Director Mary Spaulding Balch in particular, for passing the historic legislation. Fear will do that to you: They are petrified that similar legislation will pass elsewhere and that the Supreme Court will eventually uphold its constitutionality. What isn't okay is for Keenan to take two sentences out of a story in Politico written by a reporter who might as well be on NARAL's payroll to denigrate Mrs. Spaulding Balch by calling her statement "an anti-choice operative's callous words that reduce women in tragic situations to pawns in a political game." There is not a iota of truth in that. Balch said nothing insensitive. She merely told the unvarnished truth. Balch was quoted as saying that when Kansas abortionist George Tiller was killed, Nebraska abortionist LeRoy Carhart "had national attention." A man who twice was a party to cases that wound up in the Supreme Court, Carhart's already very high profile spiked for many reasons, starting with a sympathetic profile written, coincidentally, by that same reporter, this time for Newsweek. There we learned that after Tiller was killed, "Carhart began offering late-term abortions in his own practice [in Nebraska]--before, he'd done so only at Tiller's Wichita clinic--and started planning a new late-term clinic to replace Tiller's, where he could see women in the late second and early third trimesters." Carhart stated unambiguously not only that he was already performing "late-term abortions" in Nebraska, but that he was also planning a replacement clinic "perhaps in Nebraska" where he would abort babies far past the point where they could feel pain--established by medical authorities as 20 weeks. That's why Balch told the reporter, "That alerted Speaker Mike Flood to the problem in Nebraska and he worked to address that." So if truth isn't behind Keenan's cheap shot, what is? According to Julie Schmit-Albin, executive director of Nebraska Right to Life, "Mary worked closely with us and Speaker Mike Flood to ensure that the fetal pain ban retained its teeth. That is what is sticking in the craw of Keenan and others." The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act "caught them off guard and now they're scrambling to figure out a legal challenge to it," Schmit-Albin said. "As with the partial-birth abortion debate, the law puts the pain that the unborn child experiences at the center of the discussion. "That is the LAST thing they want to talk about." Please send me your thoughts at daveandrusko@gmail.com |
