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About Those Pro-Life
Female Candidates Part Three of Three By Dave Andrusko I nearly wrote "almost nothing," but it is more accurate to say that an awful lot of what you read in the "mainstream media" makes no sense unless you grasp the double standard. Pro-abortionists=progressive, defenders of human rights. Pro-Lifers=Neanderthals on our best day (and we have few of those) whose entire purpose in life is to subjugate women.
But you might think (and you would be wrong) that this would be less so when the pro-lifer is a female. I could offer a zillion examples, but let me just mention two stories that just ran. One is from the French news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP). The other is from the Associated Press (AP). AFP's headline is "US women brace for abortion fight with new lawmakers." AP's headline is "Sexism remains a problem for women seeking office." At the risk of stating the obvious, pro-abortion advocacy groups do not constitute "US [United States] women." They are a narrow subset whose love affair with abortion knows no bounds. But there are two interesting details in the story. One is a comment that suggests that while Democrats fell like ten pins on Tuesday, it's not all bad. May be fewer of them (actually a LOT fewer), but the surviving Democratic caucus "is more progressive." The other interesting observations comes from Terry O'Neill, president of NOW, who says of soon-to-be speaker of the House, John Boehner that he "has made it no secret that he is anti-choice." Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, chimed in that the midterm elections "shifted the US political landscape 'significantly, with anti-choice forces increasing their strength.'" For good measure she added, "There are already members of Congress who would use any means to block access to abortion, and they just got a slew of new allies." Good. As for the AP story, there is the lament that sexism played a role in creating an outcome where women "could lose one or two of their 73 seats in the House. That would be the first such decline since 1978." Needless to say, by "women," what is really meant is the pro-abortion component. You heard it here first. There are now six more pro-life women in the House, with chances of another being added when the final, final tabulation is in. The numbers would be one higher, but a pro-life woman, Mary Fallin, retired to run for higher office (see below). She was replaced by a pro-life man. And how about the success of women in gubernatorial contests? The emphasis in the AP story was that the number stayed the same--six. But there are "three new Republicans: Susana Martinez in New Mexico, Mary Fallin, in Oklahoma and Nikki Haley in South Carolina." Oh, by the way, all three are pro-life. Final thought. Real quick, would anyone like to compare what happened to any pro-abortion female candidate with the vicious, sexist attacks on Sharron Angle in Nevada and Christine O'Donnell in Delaware? Everything up to and including unsubtle hints about their mental stability was fair game. Would be nice--gallant, even--to admit how unfairly pro-life women are treated. Would be even nicer to acknowledge that more of them were elected! Please send your comments on Today's News & Views and National Right to Life News Today to daveandrusko@gmail.com. If you like, join those who are following me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/daveha. |
