Jonah Goldberg: Maybe Stupid, Definitely Dishonest
Jonah Goldberg comes in for some well-deserved dissing for his latest Los Angeles Times column, in which he twists a quote from an interview of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Emily Bazalon in this past Sunday’s New York Times, to accuse Ginsburg of favoring abortion to reduce births in populations considered “undesirable” (such as poor, black women).
A Far Right Wingnut Tells Us What “Liberal” Means
La Shawn Barber thinks Jeffrey Goldberg is “a liberal blogger.”
Sigh.
La Shawn also wants us to know she is not an appeaser:
(Detractors who called my Tiller post “gloating,” “twisted,” and “hateful” did so because I reminded readers that he killed infants for a living and because I didn’t publicly condemn Tiller’s murder. Unnecessary, as I condemn all acts of murder, especially murder of the unborn. I have no desire to appease anyone, especially people who think women have a right to slaughter babies in the womb. Take note that I haven’t publicly condemned the recruiter’s murder, either. Consequently, I’ll patiently await follow-up posts from liberal/pro-death bloggers declaring this post to be “gloating,” “twisted,” and “hateful” as well.)
Okay, I can see that La Shawn is extremely upset, and thus I would like to offer her reassurance on at least two points.
First, in this instance La Shawn’s patience will be rewarded: I can tell her, with complete and unalloyed sincerity and honesty, that her post today is just as gloating, twisted, and hateful as the post she wrote yesterday. I don’t think any reasonable, fair person could deny her that honor.
And second, I share La Shawn’s disinclination to appease anyone — especially people who think either women or men have the right to accuse any woman of “slaughtering her baby in the womb” because, when faced with choices that are (a) heartbreaking, and (b) known only to that woman and her family, she chooses abortion.
Catholic Church Enraged That Raped Nine-Year-Old Had an Abortion
This story garnered much less reaction in blogtopia than I would have expected it to:
Stumped Anti-Abortionists Strike Back
Remember this quaint meme and video from sometime last week where anti-abortion protesters had no blessed clue what to do with “criminal” women who would seek and complete illegal abortions?
Well, Utah has decided to try to fill this important void in outlawing illegal abortion practices — women may become living crime scenes:
The Utah House of Representatives will hear a controversial proposal that could hold physicians responsible for homicide if they perform abortions deemed illegal by the state.
Under current state law, abortion is allowed only in cases of rape or incest, if the fetus cannot survive outside the womb or is unlikely to survive, or to save the mother’s life or preserve her health.
Abortions that don’t meet any of those standards can result in third-degree felony charges.
If you live in Utah or you want to send some strongly-worded letters to the Democrats in their House of Representatives about this bill, here’s the UT House website. Tell these representatives that doctors protecting women’s health is not an air quotation myth.
I’ll update this entry with more coverage as I find it, after the jump… Read more
Crime and No Punishment
I’ve seen this video before, but not for a while, and I’m not sure I ever put it up here. It’s from a post titled “How to Stump Anti-Abortionists With One Question,” at Unreasonable Faith:
George W. Bush’s Plan B To Prevent Women’s Health Care
On tonight’s show, Rachel Maddow interviewed Melissa Harris-Lacewell, who teaches politics and African-American history at Princeton University, about the “Right of Conscience” rule that soon-to-be former Pres. Bush is pushing through for all entities that receive federal funding from the Department of Health and Human Services.
Catholic Priest to Obama Supporters: ‘No Communion For You!’
Stay classy, Rev. Jay Scott Newman:
A South Carolina Roman Catholic priest has told his parishioners that they should refrain from receiving Holy Communion if they voted for Barack Obama because the Democratic president-elect supports abortion, and supporting him “constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil.”
The Rev. Jay Scott Newman said in a letter distributed Sunday to parishioners at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Greenville that they are putting their souls at risk if they take Holy Communion before doing penance for their vote.
“Our nation has chosen for its chief executive the most radical pro-abortion politician ever to serve in the United States Senate or to run for president,” Newman wrote, referring to Obama by his full name, including his middle name of Hussein.
“Voting for a pro-abortion politician when a plausible pro-life alternative exists constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil, and those Catholics who do so place themselves outside of the full communion of Christ’s Church and under the judgment of divine law. Persons in this condition should not receive Holy Communion until and unless they are reconciled to God in the Sacrament of Penance, lest they eat and drink their own condemnation.”
South Dakota: Initiated Measure 11 Defeated
Among the good things that came out of this election was the defeat of a draconian anti-abortion law that would have banned almost all abortions in South Dakota.
Sarah Palin: Bombing Abortion Clinics Is Not Domestic Terrorism
A few days ago, in the same interview in which Sarah Palin defined “elites” as people “who think they’re better than anyone else,” there was this interesting exchange:
No Post-Abortion Guilt Here
I’ve had two abortions, and I feel no guilt whatsoever. I am told by Kevin Burke, however, that I am “repressing powerful feelings of guilt, grief, and shame,” and that is why I can’t stand Sarah Palin:
Joe the Plumber, and Roe v. Wade
It often strikes me as interesting which news items catch fire, and burn steadily, and which sort of smolder briefly and then flicker out. Everyone knows that John McCain has run, by far, the most dishonest, dishonorable campaign in decades; the news that Joe Werzelbacher, aka “Joe the Plumber” — whom McCain brought up last night as an example of an ordinary American whose valiant attempt to realize the American Dream will be crushed because Obama is going to raise his taxes — is not a licensed plumber, owes back taxes, and is related through his father to Charles Keating, shouldn’t come as such a shock. Not that it isn’t newsworthy. But the disparity in the level of outrage between Sen. McCain’s deceptive handling of Werzelbacher’s personal and professional history, and McCain’s blatant contempt for women’s health in the context of so-called “partial birth abortions” is — at least for me — kind of hard to miss, or ignore.
Sarah Palin and Abortion
Yesterday, Sarah Palin ended her attempts to play down her support for forced childbirth, and gave an impassioned sermon on the gospel of Fetus Worship to an adoring crowd in Johnstown, Pennsylvania:
Abortion Is A Constitutionally Guaranteed Right That Should Be Decided By the States
That’s essentially what Sarah Palin told Katie Couric on the last segment (please God!) of Couric’s series of interviews with MooseWoman (after which she responded to Couric’s follow-up question about other Supreme Court cases with a blank stare and a stammering non-answer; i.e., she doesn’t know any other Supreme Court cases).
More About Sarah Palin’s Hateful Rape Victim Philosophy and Policies
Cernig points to an enlightening post by Shannyn Moore, an Alaskan radio host and blogger. The post provides more details on Sarah Palin’s now-infamous policy of billing rape survivors for the cost of gathering evidence with which to arrest and charge the rapist:
Sarah Palin and the Fourth Estate
As most people know, the Fourth Estate is the press — the first, second, and third estates being the religious establishment (the clergy), the secular establishment (nobles), and the common people. The term goes back at least to Thomas Carlyle, in the first half of the nineteenth century; Carlyle himself attributed it to Edmund Burke, who lived in the eighteenth century, and who is reported to have said, looking up at the press gallery in the House of Commons: “Yonder sits the Fourth Estate, and they are more important than them all.”
Some Questions for Sarah Palin…
… that she didn’t answer in her speech last night:
Thank You, John McCain
As Jeff Fecke suggested in his excellent post, which Kyle linked to earlier today, we have John McCain to thank for giving Barack Obama the perfect opening to highlight the stark difference between himself and McCain in the area of abortion rights, and reproductive rights in general.
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