Fraters Libertas

I Used To Be Disgusted,
And Now I Try To Be Amused

An editorial entitled "Many Women/Marching To Choose, And To Live" in today's Minneapolis Star and Sickle further bolsters our effort to encourage a mass exodus from their rolls of subscribers.

Consider this choice passage:

Choice. Liberty. Privacy. That's what today's March for Women's Lives is actually about. A scornful few may insist it's about abortion, but they're very much mistaken.

That's clever. A pro-abortion march has been foisted upon Washington and our local "newspaper" treats it as a women's empowerment rally. Brilliant! Remove that whole dead fetus thing from the equation and you've got yourself something that the entire world can support. I guess I am just one of those "scornful few" who sees this march for what it is. It's a pro-abortion rally, plain and simple.

Reading on, we find that:

...the current occupant of the White House couldn't be more hostile to the notion of reproductive freedom. He favors virtually every proposal ever offered to make the right to choose meaningless -- and has audaciously snubbed the world's women by breaking a U.S. promise to give the United Nations Population Fund $34 million in international family-planning money. The cut-off has spurred millions of unwanted pregnancies and abortions -- and untold numbers of maternal deaths.

So I'm to believe that President Bush is responsible for "millions of unwanted pregnancies" and "untold" numbers of deaths because he supposedly withheld $34 million dollars from the U.N. I don't remember much from my high school biology class, but I DO remember that lack of funding does not make a baby. I think we should spend our time trying to prevent these "unwanted pregnancies" rather than bickering and arguing about what to do after we've sucked their brains out through their collapsed skulls.

The editorial ends thusly:

The Land of the Free has become a strange sort of place. These days, it seems, women cannot gather to celebrate what they have already won. They must march in hope that the most basic of rights is not stripped away. They must march to remind their own government what the promise of America -- the promise of freedom -- really means.

I'm sorry, but I was under the impression that American women (and men) could gather to celebrate anything that they wanted to. The March For Women's Lives proves that fact. Yesterday, women from all walks of life marched on Washington celebrating their right to kill their children.

Who will march for the dead unborn?