So much for working together
It looks like Debra Haffner’s objections (and mine) are in the process of being confirmed. Anti-abortion groups, it would seem, are only willing to reduce the number of abortions when it is done on their terms. Otherwise, they get downright devious.
I mean, how does one, with a straight-face, use Barack Obama’s rise to the Presidency as an advertisement against abortion? I’ve never heard a single hint of a whisper that Obama was anything less than wanted as a baby. So the ad looks to me to be against killing your elementary age kid because their father took off. It’s singularly dishonest to use forty years of hindsight to second-guess anyone’s decision to have an abortion.
I have to agree with David Waters (at the Washington Post) when he writes:
As for the ad, using Obama’s story to argue against abortion seems disingenuous at best, exploitive at worst. Obama’s parents were married when he was born. There’s no evidence Obama’s mother ever considered an abortion. And as my Dallas Morning News colleague Bruce Tomaso points out, “couldn’t you make the same argument about anyone? If Tim McVeigh’s mom had had an abortion, might those 168 people in Oklahoma City still be alive?”
The evidence is in. We aren’t dealing with people who want to actually reduce abortions, no matter what. We are dealing with people who simply want to criminalize abortion. They’ll sound agreeable as long as things are moving in their direction. But here’s a lesson from international relations: You can’t negotiate with people who will lie to your face at every opportunity.
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