Jewish World Review Michelle Malkin January 3, 2007
It’s official: The editors of The New York Times have no shame. Don’t take my word for it. Listen to the Times’ own ombudsman, Byron Calame.
On Sunday, Calame wrote a stunning column debunking an April 9 New York Times Magazine cover story on abortion in El Salvador. The sensational piece by freelance writer Jack Hitt alleged that women there had been thrown in prison for 30-year terms for having had abortions. Hitt described his visit to one of them, inmate Carmen Climaco. “She is now 26 years old, four years into her 30-year sentence” for aborting an 18-week-old fetus, Hitt reported.
The magazine featured heart-rending photos of Climaco’s 11-year-old daughter, eyes filled with tears as she clutched a photo of her jailed mom. Cruel. Horrible. Outrageous. And utterly, demonstrably, false.
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Of course, to many abortionists the fact that the child was born alive and then strangled is morally equivalent to abortion anyway. The mother wanted the child gone, its gone. Why bother with the inconvenient truth of life. She should not be punished. Everybody’s better off with the child dead anyway.
Anybody see any connection with adults wanting to live child-free, killing the ones that come anyway and the promotion of homosexual marriage?
Read Elizabeth Anscombe’s Contraception and Chastity to see in greater detail the connection to which Michael alludes.