Anti-Choice Abortion Warriors Have a New Poster Girl

[marmar]

via AlterNet:



Anti-Choice Abortion Warriors Have a New Poster Girl

By Bill Berkowitz, IPS News. Posted May 30, 2009.

Meet Lila Rose, the new 20-year old face of the anti-choice movement.



She's a politically savvy history student at the University of California, Los Angeles who is appearing on countless conservative talk radio programmes and cable television news shows.

She was given the 2008 Person of the Year Malachi Award, by the longtime anti-abortion group Operation Rescue, and received a 50,000-dollar grant from an anti-abortion philanthropist.

On her campus, she is campaigning to urge the administration to cut ties with Planned Parenthood Federation of America, a national provider of sexual and reproductive health services.

Meet Lila Rose, 20, the president of Live Action Films, and the new face of the anti-abortion movement.

Rose's emergence onto the national stage comes at a time when President Barack Obama, who supports the legal right to abortion, is nevertheless seeking "common ground" on the issue. .......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/140347/anti-choice_abortion_warriors_have_a_new_poster_girl/

[fasttense]

1. I thought Margaret Sanger fought this issue in 1916?

So this little gem of a misogynist wants to start up the battles against birth control from the early years of the 1900s. What an idiot.

[kimmylavin]

2. Charming.

"So now with Lila, you bring this young, fresh college student that completely blows any stereotypes away. No one is going to accuse Lila of being mean, vindictive and harsh."

Uh... I do.

[Demoiselle]

3. Is she, um, invisible, too?

With a headline like "Meet Lila Rose" don't you usually run a picture?
Oh, I get it. She has super powers.

[marmar]

4. If you're that interested you can probably do a Google images search.....

..... I really can control what's at the link, n'est-ce pas?

[Demoiselle]

8. Good grief, I'm not criticizing you...

I know you took the title straight from the link. It's the link that has shortcomings, not your post.

[Demeter]

5. There's Always a Sellout--That's What Makes the GOP!

the Greedy Opportunists' Party

[madmom]

6. Well they tell us what we have to do right in the article...

"We can contrast this with the actual sex crimes committed by Catholic priests against children. No one has demanded that the government end grants and contracts with Catholic agencies such as Catholic Relief Services or Catholic Charities over this."

[bemildred]

7. Hey, it's a job, probably pays pretty well. Jobs are hard to find these days. nt