Former Time Reporter: Childbirth Is Violent and Gruesome, Like Gosnell’s Abortion Clinic
Former Time reporter Nina Burleigh – the infamous feminist journalist who once announced ”I’d be happy to give [Bill Clinton oral sex] just to thank him for keeping abortion legal” — has a new article at The New York Observer on “The Year In Sexism.”
Even the trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell in May was used audaciously as a feminist moment to correct those who “demonize abortion generally.” She insisted while late-term abortions were violent and gruesome, so is childbirth:
The murder conviction of quack abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell for scissoring viable fetuses to death propelled a new effort to demonize abortion generally. Even moderates like the Times’ [sic] Ross Douthat used the event to remind people how violent and gruesome late-term abortions are when performed by competent doctors, failing to note that childbirth itself is a violent and gruesome event too.
This sounds a lot like PBS talk-show host Bonnie Erbe, who announced in 1995 that “partial-birth abortions” shouldn’t be seen as atypically gruesome: ” “But aren’t most medical procedures, when you describe them in detail, pretty disgusting? Isn’t, for example, the production of veal, when you describe it in detail, and how people eat meat, when they crunch down on the flesh of living beings, formerly living beings with their teeth. Isn’t that pretty gruesome, too?”
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