When pro-choice social commentator Camille Paglia wrote that she sanctions "murder" when it is called "abortion," pro-lifers were horrified. They should have cheered.
Her article -- published recently on Salon.com-- only briefly touched on abortion. But the offending comments were made as part of an attention- grabbing one-two punch. Paglia wrote that she is "a firm supporter of abortion rights," but then went on to say: "I have always frankly admitted that abortion is murder, the extermination of the powerless by the powerful … which results in the annihilation of concrete individuals and not just clumps of insensate tissue." Almost every pro-abortion activist lives in a zone where they conceal what abortion really is -- though they know that the procedure involves killing a person each and every time. The difference between them and Paglia is that they don't come out and say it. For the average Canadian, the whole issue has long been obscured by euphemistic language. "I believe in a woman's right to choose" is the standard eight-word refrain. We can thank Paglia for unpacking that sentence. The "choice" involves choosing the annihilation of concrete individuals at the hands of the powerful. (One pictures an innocent serf being dragged to the gallows under a medieval prince.) The "right" claimed is an absolute authority over another person's body. http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/09/23/andrea-mrozek-abortion-in-plain-english.aspx --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
