Another anti-choice screed in today's NYT by Charles C. Camosy
This guy really made me want to spit up my coffee this morning. I wonder why the NYT gave him the space to screech.
Here is an excerpt (I dunno how to get you the full OpEd piece):
"Language like this ignores the fact that each of us once existed as “clusters of cells that have not yet developed into viable human beings.” It seeks to hide the fact that by the time most surgical abortions take place, a prenatal child has electrical activity in the brain and a beating heart.
Other words and phrases used in the discussion about abortion seek to obscure this reality as well: “tissue,” “part of the mother,” “parasite,” “potential life.” Even the term “fetus” is dehumanizing."
He doesn't quote one "pro-life" woman in this piece...not one. Only a bishop and the Pope, two men who have chosen celibacy. Couldn't he muster up something by Mother Teresa (but perhaps didn't because of embarrassing details from her life that came into question).
I nearly threw down my paper in disgust when I read: "Even the term "fetus" is dehumanizing." Might I be so bold as to suggest that the term "fetus" is a medical term? He should take it up with the medical community. In fact, if anything he dehumanizes women by leaving their emotions, experience and lives completely out of the article. And doesn't even deal with rape victims...I shudder to think of what he has to say there...
Look, I don't expect him to embrace Gloria Steinem or Planned Parenthood (who do more each day to prevent unwanted pregnancies than he would in a lifetime.) I hope the NYT gets an earful from its readers.
