OH, THEY'RE GONNA' HATE ME NOW

Today was the annual “March for Woman’s Lives” on the mall in Washington, DC. Of course, this march has NOTHING to do with woman’s lives; it has everything to do with the killing of children.

Tim Graham, of Media Research Center fame, mentioned in the Corner at National Review that the coverage in the Washington Post on Saturday was fairly balanced. Of course, because he has been looking at liberal media everyday for ten years, he has become numb. The coverage was typical.

The story in the metro section was really all about Gerri Santoro. Gerri was the poster child for the pro-abortion movement in the late Sixties. Gerri had a “do-it-yourself” abortion in 1967 and it went completely wrong. She ended up bleeding to death, nude with a towel tying to stop the bleeding, in a motel room. The picture of her face down, fetal position body was used to show how we needed legal abortions in all states.

Now, let me say one thing. I cry for her terrible death. As much as I feel for her baby’s death, I feel for her.

That being said, let’s check out what we learn from the Washington Post:

“Gerri Santoro was one of her younger sisters, bubbly and trusting, the mother of two girls by a man who abused her and them. They separated, Santoro had a relationship with another man and became pregnant. When she was more than six months along, her husband contacted her: He was returning to her Coventry, Conn., home in hopes of reconciling.

Santoro panicked, her sister said. When he saw she was pregnant, she feared, he might kill her. Leona scraped together $700 and told her to hide. Instead, the man by whom she was pregnant borrowed a set of medical instruments and a textbook from a work colleague. When the procedure went wrong he fled, leaving Santoro to bleed to death at a Norwich, Conn., motel.“

What? She was, “more than six months along”? That means she was into her THIRD tri-mester. She was out to have a third-trimester abortion, practically a partial-birth abortion! And I’m supposed to think I should respect her and protect her right to “choose”? I don’t think so! She wanted to kill her nearly full-term baby because she had slept around like a two-bit slut and was afraid her husband would find out. Sorry, Charlie, that’s not working for me.

Of course, she IS a perfect poster child for the pro-abortion crowd. She wanted a late term abortion on demand. No matter how much the baby-killers want you to think they are only reasonable people, they really aren’t.

I may have offended people by not empathizing with a dead woman, but when that dead woman is a bad woman, I can’t feel too sorry for her. I wish she hadn’t died, but I wish that because I wish she wasn’t killing her baby in the process.