Kathleen Parker goes off the rails

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I usually like Kathleen Parker despite being a liberal, but she really twisted herself into a pretzel with this one.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/komen-catholics-and-the-cost-of-conscience/2012/02/03/gIQAqSGYnQ_story.html?hpid=z2

My favorite is the third graf, which is laugh-out-loud hilarious.

Kathleen Parker is a self-professed Republican. She has described herself as "right of center."

I think the poster was self identifying as liberal, not the columnist, though I read it the other way first.

[Anonymous]

Agree with OP. Parker's arguments are just wrong. It was Komen who bowed to anti-choice pressure. Pro choice citizens found out, and rightly discerned that it was a political move. I don't think that people have been forced to be "left" on this issue, quite the contrary. As an example I give you the recent anti choice initiative in VA requiring an ultrasound prior to an abortion whether it's medically called for or not. Further, I give you the pharmacists who have been granted "conscience clauses" not to dispense birth control. These are not the actions of a nation being forced to be politically liberal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Actually thought it was extremely thoughtful..and I agree with her. Not sorry..sick of the left pressuring people to be left. If you don't like Komen ..give elsewhere..that's fine. Awful that they gave in.

Hilarious. A bunch of right wingers have been pestering Komen for years. Finally they caved due to one recent senior person, and suddenly it's "pressuring people to be left". That's like taking my wallet and getting pissed that I went after you and took it back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Agree with OP. Parker's arguments are just wrong. It was Komen who bowed to anti-choice pressure. Pro choice citizens found out, and rightly discerned that it was a political move. I don't think that people have been forced to be "left" on this issue, quite the contrary. As an example I give you the recent anti choice initiative in VA requiring an ultrasound prior to an abortion whether it's medically called for or not. Further, I give you the pharmacists who have been granted "conscience clauses" not to dispense birth control. These are not the actions of a nation being forced to be politically liberal.

Is this in VA?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Agree with OP. Parker's arguments are just wrong. It was Komen who bowed to anti-choice pressure. Pro choice citizens found out, and rightly discerned that it was a political move. I don't think that people have been forced to be "left" on this issue, quite the contrary. As an example I give you the recent anti choice initiative in VA requiring an ultrasound prior to an abortion whether it's medically called for or not. Further, I give you the pharmacists who have been granted "conscience clauses" not to dispense birth control. These are not the actions of a nation being forced to be politically liberal.

This is so infuriating. A pharmacist can now refuse to dispense birth control because he or she doesn't believe in using it, per the Bible.

Come on ladies, how do we stop this madness?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agree with OP. Parker's arguments are just wrong. It was Komen who bowed to anti-choice pressure. Pro choice citizens found out, and rightly discerned that it was a political move. I don't think that people have been forced to be "left" on this issue, quite the contrary. As an example I give you the recent anti choice initiative in VA requiring an ultrasound prior to an abortion whether it's medically called for or not. Further, I give you the pharmacists who have been granted "conscience clauses" not to dispense birth control. These are not the actions of a nation being forced to be politically liberal.

Is this in VA?

No, it's been in many different places across the country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agree with OP. Parker's arguments are just wrong. It was Komen who bowed to anti-choice pressure. Pro choice citizens found out, and rightly discerned that it was a political move. I don't think that people have been forced to be "left" on this issue, quite the contrary. As an example I give you the recent anti choice initiative in VA requiring an ultrasound prior to an abortion whether it's medically called for or not. Further, I give you the pharmacists who have been granted "conscience clauses" not to dispense birth control. These are not the actions of a nation being forced to be politically liberal.

This is so infuriating. A pharmacist can now refuse to dispense birth control because he or she doesn't believe in using it, per the Bible.

Come on ladies, how do we stop this madness?

I speak for myself here: make myself aware no matter how depressing it is. I quit reading Ms. Magazine because it was too depressing, but I am going to have to start reading it again. People frequently deride the feminist movement for moving in lockstep; well, it was only when it began to fracture and lose steam that it lost focus and anti choice initiatives began to appear and get passed across the country.