Looking For a Fair and Balanced Pro-Choice Reporter
Posted by: tony on 03/04/2006 11:12 AM
Updated by: tony on 03/04/2006 08:01 PM
Expires: 04/04/2006 12:00 AM
I am becoming more and more disenchanted with journalists. Oh, I'm sure everyone can tell me about a journalist they know who is fair and balanced, but I really have yet to meet one.
There once was a time when journalists were interested in getting at the truth. They would dig, dig, check their facts, dig again, get beat up, dig, dig, get shot at and dig some more in the pursuit of a story. They were pursuing what the story was, not what the story could be made into.
Now we have "reporters" like David Gregory ticked off because Dick Cheney didn't call him immediately after shooting Mr. Whittington. You'd thing Gregory wanted the Vice President to call him before the ambulence. What a bunch of pampered wusses our journalists have become.
My view is, as elected officials with unparalleled influence over the lives of the American people, the President and Vice President owe the public information about their activities. I see myself as a proxy for the public that has raised questions about what happened and why the Vice President did not immediately disclose it. Furthermore, when a sitting Vice President shoots a man, it's a helluva story -- worthy of public notice and discussion.
Well then, Mr. Gregory, get off your candy ass and find the story. Or maybe insead of flying with the President in Air Force One, you ought to start hunting with Mr. Cheney. ;)
He said he wanted to get opinions from the street, which he did, and he also interviewed employees of the abortion clinic. He had notified the clinic ahead of time that he would be coming, and an executive was there to greet him.
"Which one?" I asked.
He took out her card. It was the president of Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota.
"Who were some of the pro-life people you talked to?" I asked.
"I talked to a pastor," he said. He added that the pastor "wasn't very intelligent" but gave him some good quotes.
I pressed on. "Who was the highest person you spoke to in the pro-life movement?"
"I didn't want to speak to people from organizations," he said. "I was there to visit the clinic and speak to people on the street."
"Yes, I know that," I said. "But the clinic knew you were coming, and they sent an executive who oversees Planned Parenthood in three states to speak to you."
He looked at me quizzically. I sighed.
Many of them have been doing it so long, that they don't even see it anymore. They interview the three state president of Planned Parenthood on one side, and Pastor Jeb from Bohunk, So. Dakota on the other.
This guy says: "I didn't want to speak to people from organizations," he said. "I was there to visit the clinic and speak to people on the street." and then takes out a card of a second-tier Planned Parenthood functionary. Does he believe that this Planned Parenthood hack was not a "person from an organization"? It's incredible. Sorry to have to fisk Dawn's friend, but this guy is either a liar or he's dumb as a post.
One would think that maybe a lightbulb might have gone off with what Dawn was telling him, but I guess truth takes a back seat to a woman's right to kill her unborn children.
Secret world of US abortion doctors
By Harry Mount in Sioux Falls
(Filed: 04/03/2006)
Oooohhh... The secret world of US abortion "doctors". I wonder if that is like the secret world of the Opus Dei assassins like were described in The DaVinci Code.
The only abortion clinic in South Dakota has four doctors on its staff and all live a cloak and dagger existence.
Mindful of the threat to their lives, and the precedent of other doctors killed by "pro-life" zealots, each flies in once a month to perform up to 30 operations and leaves the same day.
Now that sounds safe for the women having an abortion. Kind of like the McDonald's of baby killing.
Abortion is dividing opinion across the United States again, nowhere more so than in the heartland where the Bible and the right to bear arms are held in equal reverence.
From the frozen farmlands of the north to the sultry deep south, states are fighting to overturn the 1973 Supreme Court ruling that legalised abortion.
South Dakota last week banned abortion for all pregnancies, including those resulting from incest and rape, unless the mother's health is at risk. Mississippi is in the process of outlawing the practice and four other states are expected to follow.
Mike Rounds, South Dakota's governor, is said to be in favour of signing his state's bill into law next week.
This would be a step in the right direction. In the overwhelming majority of cases, women would still have the right to choose, only that choice would be made at the spreading of the legs, rather than at the beating of another's heart.
"Pro-life" [ed.- Note the sneer quotes. Such "fair and balanced reporting"!] campaigners hope that, with the election to the Supreme Court of the conservative Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, its 1973 Roe v Wade ruling can be reviewed - and even reversed.
Roe v. Wade is quite simply, bad law. It should be overturned. There is no "right to privacy" in the Constitution. If there were, why are so many people who take illegal drugs in the privacy of their own home being put in jail? There is no right to abortion, especially in the case of third trimester abortions, like the one that killed Christin.
"I don't feel my life is in danger but I don't tell casual acquaintances what I do," said the doctor in the Sioux Falls clinic.
Of course not. If I were an abortionist, I'd be ashamed of what I do too. Nobody should kill abortion doctors. This is entirely antithetical to the pro-life movement which states all life is sacred from cradle to grave. That includes the unborn, the handicapped, the old and infirm, the criminals and the abortionists.
"If abortion is banned, you'll end up with some very severely injured women," she said, reluctant to disclose more about herself than that she had carried out abortions for 24 years.
"Back-street abortions end up with hysterectomies or heavy bleeding and obviously they can die," she said.
You mean like Christin? Oh, that's right, it wasn't a "back-street" (that's back-alley, by the way) it was a legal abortion.
Not only that, a woman who's had an abortion has a greater chance of being permanently sterile:
The risk of secondary infertility among women with at least one induced abortion is 3-4 time greater than that among non-aborted women. - (British Journal of OB/GYN, August, 1976)
Every week pro-life protesters surround the Planned Parenthood clinic, bristling with cameras, on the edge of Sioux Falls.
"They shout, 'Sarah, you're a Nazi'," said Sarah Stoesz, the president of Planned Parenthood, which operates clinics across America.
"At the parking lot, they shout, 'How many babies did you kill to get that car?' "
The roads are dotted with posters saying "ABC: Abstinence Breeds Control" and "Abortion - One dead: Two wounded", next to a silhouette of a grieving couple and a child's grave on a hilltop.
Yup, the media always focuses on the screaming crazies who are foaming at the mouth. They never focus on a group of people quietly praying the rosary for the help of our Blessed Mother who was the first of a long line of women who chose life.
But an undeniable fact is this. Two people go into an abortion clinic, one comes out.
And what is "abstinence breeds control"? Abstinence is as pro choice as you get.
