NYT gets their nose rubbed in the reality of abortion
While most of the articles from the New York Times have dismissed any questions aimed at Planned Parenthood resulting from the recent undercover videos, a lone opinion piece has been published by Ross Douthat that is well worth the read. Go read it here. Here’s how the piece ends:
…the reluctance to look closely doesn’t change the truth of what there is to see. Those were dead human beings on Richard Selzer’s street 40 years ago, and these are dead human beings being discussed on video today: Human beings that the nice, idealistic medical personnel at Planned Parenthood have spent their careers crushing, evacuating, and carving up for parts.
The pro-life sting was sweeping; there are reportedly 10 videos to go. You can turn away. But there will be plenty of chances to look, to see, to know.
If this doesn’t move you, nothing will. Looking Away From Abortion http://t.co/F8l33dsFtp
— Ellen McGarvie Frigo (@ellen_frigo) July 26, 2015
And just take a look at the comments he is getting:
A fetus is no more a human being than a chicken an egg, or an acorn an oak. Only the irrationality of religious belief or right-wing propaganda can make it seem otherwise. And only a deep lack of principle would lead abortion opponents to mischaracterize the non-profit sale of fetal tissue under standard medical arrangements.
Keep your superstition to yourself, and leave the rest of us to create a better world in which no woman is deprived of the right to make her own choice about her own body and no sick person must suffer unnecessarily…
A brave new world, indeed!