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The New York Times Praises Pro-Lifers (!?!)
by Colin Mason
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On 7 December 2008, the Times ran an op-ed by Ross Douthat called “Abortion Politics Didn’t Doom the G.O.P.” The pro-life movement, Douthat condescendingly concedes, was not completely responsible for John McCain’s defeat in the 2008 presidential election. Why? Because pro-lifers have finally decided to leave the Stone Age and get with the program.
According to Douthat, “compromise, rather than absolutism, has been the watchword of anti-abortion efforts for some time now. Since the early 1990s, advocates have focused on pushing largely modest state-level restrictions, from parental notification laws to waiting periods to bans on what we see as the grisliest forms of abortion.”
“The culture of (sometimes violent) protest that once defined the movement,” Douthat continues, “is largely a thing of the past . . . Over the same period, pro-lifers–especially in the evangelical community–have broadened their movement’s ambit, emphasizing poverty, the environment and other non-abortion “life issues” more consistently than an earlier generation did. Leading pro-life figures like Rick Warren are more likely to be photographed touring poor nations alongside Bono than protesting outside abortion clinics.”
Yay! Good for us. We have been upgraded from crazed, clinic-bombing fundamentalists to well-meaning–if simple-minded–folk. We can even be mentioned in the same sentence as the Blessed Bono, icon of the Left.
Please click on the link to read the rest of this very interesting article.
by Colin Mason
pop.org/ Click on The weekly update link on the left of the page.
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Sometimes, through no fault of its own, the New York Times has been known to stumble upon the truth. On pro-life issues, that's generally the best we can hope for.According to Douthat, “compromise, rather than absolutism, has been the watchword of anti-abortion efforts for some time now. Since the early 1990s, advocates have focused on pushing largely modest state-level restrictions, from parental notification laws to waiting periods to bans on what we see as the grisliest forms of abortion.”
“The culture of (sometimes violent) protest that once defined the movement,” Douthat continues, “is largely a thing of the past . . . Over the same period, pro-lifers–especially in the evangelical community–have broadened their movement’s ambit, emphasizing poverty, the environment and other non-abortion “life issues” more consistently than an earlier generation did. Leading pro-life figures like Rick Warren are more likely to be photographed touring poor nations alongside Bono than protesting outside abortion clinics.”
Yay! Good for us. We have been upgraded from crazed, clinic-bombing fundamentalists to well-meaning–if simple-minded–folk. We can even be mentioned in the same sentence as the Blessed Bono, icon of the Left.
Please click on the link to read the rest of this very interesting article.