Reuters "news" editor Todd Eastham responded by email to a National Right to Life Committee press release:
Eastham's email read as follows: "What's your plan for parenting & educating all the unwanted children you people want to bring into the world? Who will pay for policing our streets & maintaining the prisons needed to contain them when you, their parents & the system fail them? Oh, sorry. All that money has been earmarked to pay off the Bush deficit. Give me a frigging break, will you?"How obliviously evil! The parents "don't want" the children, therefore the children should be killed. With that logic and morality the strong can justify killing just about anyone we want, right?
Douglas Johnson, the National Right to Life Committee's legislative director, called it "sad but revealing to see an editor for a major news service so casually and gratuitously express such blatant hostility to both the Bush administration and to the right to life of unborn children.Nah, I'm sure his twisted morality and idiocy don't affect how he edits "news" stories or selects stories for publication."Apparently, Mr. Eastham feels strongly that abortion is necessary to prevent the birth of children who will otherwise snatch some bread from his mouth," said Johnson. "We can only wonder at how such vehement opinions may color Mr. Eastham's reporting or editing on subjects such as abortion and the Bush administration."
Anyway, on the plus side, I really like the concept of "oblivious evil" and I think I'm going to use it more frequently.
Eastham must have missed the memo that stated there is a LONG waiting list of Americans wanting kids for adoption (or he must not know anyone who wants children since everyone he knows kills them).
The Left has hit bottom and is digging furiously.
Obviously, this Reuters editor has never heard of self-control, assumption of responsibility, or alterations of behavior in response to changes in alternatives. Abortion was illegal for nearly everyone, for nearly all of recorded history, and the world didn't drown in unwanted children even though there was no reliable contraception until about 1960. Do you suppose our Reuters friend is aware of any of this, or did he go to a public school?
FP: "The Left has hit bottom and is digging furiously."
I laugh at such ridiculous gloom-and-doom assessments.
Do I agree with this Reuters editor? No.
Do I think he's representing the majority of "The Left"? No. .. and neither do most sensible people.
Mark reminds me of the two old muppets on the muppet show, always popping up with an anti-comment.
Now worries Mark. It's not derogatory. I'm rather getting used to it. Keeps us on our toes.
Heh.
JP: Well, if Michael Williams wanted a bunch of "yes" men/women, he should've put a requirement for posting into place that includes your RNC membership number or something. :)
Mark: That's a great idea. Maybe we should require input of the last 4 digits of the SSN. Then we could uplink to a gov't database, capture the political affiliation in realtime, automatically place a donkey or elephant icon next to each poster's name, and...nah. Too much work. :-)
I guess there's no reason to draw the line there, at birth, either. I mean, we don't even know how the child will turn out at that point. Maybe if we find out when the kid's 4 or 5 that he/she can't behave or is dumb or ugly we could eliminate him/her then. Clean up the gene pool a little. yeah,