A Testimony

Dr. Sanity:

THE LEFT'S FIRESTORM OF PROJECTION ABOUT PALIN

Nowhere can the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of today's left be seen more clearly than in their knee-jerk reaction to Sarah Palin as McCain's vice presidential pick.

Newshoggers, for example asks, "And how do we know she is a theocon wingnut extremist? Theocon wingnut extremist James Dobson is now onboard after saying for months he would never vote for John McCain."

Oh gee, Mr. Beasley. I guess then we can safely assume that Barack Obama is an anti-American, terror-sympathizing radical extremist because, not only are anti-American, terror-sympathizing radical extremists William Ayers and Bernadette Dohrn going to vote for him, but they also have a rather close personal and professional association with him!

Glad you finally cleared up any remaining doubts anyone might have about how to assess such connections.

And, The Nation's Katha Pollitt puts it even more plainly:

Here's the reality: Palin is a rightwing-Christian anti-choice extremist who opposes abortion for any reason whasoever, except to save the life of the girl or woman. No exception even for rape, incest, or the health of the woman. No exception for a ten-year-old, a woman carrying a fetus with no chance of life, a woman on the edge of suicide-- let alone the woman who is not ready to be a parent, who is escaping domestic violence, who is already stretched to the limit as a single mother. She wants to force over one million women and girls a year to give birth against their will and judgment. She wants to use the magnificent freedom the women's movement has won for her at tremendous cost and struggle--the movement that won her the right to run those marathons and run Alaska -- to take away the freedom of every other woman in the country.

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Within days of her selection by McCain, Palin has been the subject of the most vile and obscene accusations. Reasonable people may disagree with the selection of Palin on a number of fronts (e.g, for EXACTLY the same reasons that a reasonable person might consider Barack Obama uniquely UNDERqualified for the job of President; or because they object to the whole diversity scam perpetrated by the left on women and minorities); but then, reasonable people don't hysterically shriek about protecting some primal need to kill unborn babies to ensure that women--what was it Pollit said? Oh yes--aren't forced to give birth against their "will and judgement".

Let me tell you about my own "triumph of the will" and a decision that led to what ranks in my own mind as the best example of my own abysmal judgement when I was young: when I was 16 years old, I had an abortion. It wasn't nearly as easy to get as it is today; and I didn't have the option beforehand of obtaining birth control to prevent the inevitable consequence of choosing to have sex. Yet, I chose to have unprotected sex anyway.

Now that I'm a grown up; and from the distance of many years, I find that I'm sick to death of the whole 'give me abortion or give me death' argument of leftist feminists today. In case they haven't noticed, abortions have steadily declined and reached their lowest rate in three decades this year.

It's not hard to speculate why--women (and girls) are more empowered and able to take effective action to prevent pregnancy. Women are smarter and savvier about their bodies and their choices. And thank God for that. My own daughter was born to a young woman who CHOSE to give the child up for adoption after birth (I was blessed to have the experience of being the physician who delivered her).

It turned out that I became infertile and endured multiple miscarriages primarily because of the therapeutic abortion I had 20+ years earlier.

Infertility was only the physical price I happened to pay for exercising my 'will' when I was a callow and insensitive young person. I won't bore you with the details of the psychological sequelae which took decades for me to come to terms, particularly after I went into a profession that strives to protect and preserve human life.

At any rate, nowadays I no longer see abortion as the be-all and end-all of Women's Rights--as most of the dead-end feminists and their metrosexual male pets do. And I have great respect for women who exercise their own will and judgement and chose differently than I did--people like Sarah Palin, for example. She had what amounts to a genuine medical reason--Trisomy 21, or Down's Syndrome--that supposedly would have made the decision morally easy. Instead, Sarah Palin chose life.

In my mind, that's pretty 'pro-choice'.

But because he happens to be a Conservative Republican, her choices and judgement and will as a woman don't count in the leftist 'mind'. In truth, she has shown more integrity and strength of character in that one decision, than most of those who are currently demonizing her have shown in their entire lives--or certainly than I was able to muster up when I was 16 years old and found myself pregnant due to my own irresponsible behavior.