Who is talking about abortion?

[pegkerr]

Here is a fascinating article about the breakdown of writers at The New York Times who discuss abortion as a topic.

A liberal, poet Robert Frost once quipped, is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. Nowhere is this truer than at The New York Times today on the subject of abortion. The past two years have seen one of the most contentious and closely watched presidential contests in 40 years, the retirement of the first female Supreme Court justice, the appointment of two new justices and an attempted Senate filibuster against one of them specifically because of liberal concerns about how he would vote on choice issues. And during that period, not one op-ed discussing abortion on the op-ed page of the most powerful liberal paper in the nation was written by a reproductive-rights advocate, a pro-choice service-provider, or a representative of a women’s group.

Instead, the officially pro-choice New York Times has hosted a conversation about abortion on its op-ed page that consisted almost entirely of the views of pro-life or abortion-ambivalent men, male scholars of the right, and men with strong, usually Catholic, religious affiliations. In fact, a stunning 83 percent of the pieces appearing on the page that discussed abortion were written by men.

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Comments

[aelfsciene.livejournal.com]

This is appalling. It drives me frakking crazy that it's men making rules that affect (even control) a woman's life so intimately, and that the Times would have the gall to claim, "well, there's more men in positions of power" as a reason for so few op-ed pieces written by women. That's exactly why women's voices need to be heard, for god's sake!

On an incredibly much cooler note, though, check out the story on the president of a Sioux tribe in South Dakota's potential plans to open a Planned Parenthood clinic on reservation land. A friend-of-a-friend actually called her to offer support, so there's info about making calls or donations or whatnot here.

Spread the word!

[liadan-m.livejournal.com]

that is disturbing.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

"In fact, a stunning 83 percent of the pieces appearing on the page that discussed abortion were written by men."

And this surprises whom?

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