where is the article referenced in this propaganda piece of yours ? a check of Camille Paglia shows she wrote no such article ! On Sep 24, 6:34 am, mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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/... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum
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