Like THE IRISH TIMES, London’s OBSERVER has pages headed “Comment and Analysis.” Prudent commentators, you’d think, would analyse a subject before spouting about it. The Organs named habitually blot their copy with EJACULATIO PRAECOX. Without apology or embarrassment.
The OBSERVER of 19 May has two articles on abortion, each in its support.Plurality of opinion on the matter is rarely tolerated.The one by Catherine Bennett is headlined “From Alabama to Armagh, women are on the front line waging the “war on abortion” At least she acknowledges that not all women approve of abortion. The photograph accompanying her piece shows two women, described as “Pro-Choice campaigners in Atlanta, Georgia” outside an abortion clinic, One carries a placarding saying “TRUST WOMEN” (even those who oppose abortion?) while the other has one proclaiming “Reproductive Freedom For All.” Both wear red cloaks from neck to toe, and their eyes and noses are obscured by white headgear. They face the world with all the secrecy of the KU KLUX KLAN.
In the same issue Erin Durkin quotes Jenna King-Shepherd, a wealthy celebrity and “Reproductive Rights Campaigner” –
“This abortion ban is an assault on the poor and women of colour.” The Ban on abortions was passed by Alabama’s legislators and signed by the State’s Governor, and could be struck down or upheld by the US Supreme Court. A pro- abortion State Senator Linda Coleman-Madison introduced an Amendment that would have required Alabama to pay
childbirth costs and provide healthcare for a child up to the age of 13. But most Americans would regard such civilised provision as an emanation from hell, whilst approving abortion on demand.
It is weird though how Staci Fox, president of Planned Parenthood Southeast weeps for poor women and “women of colour” considering how forced sterilisation of the poor and the blacks was promoted by her/his predecessors on just such people. The late James Baldwin, black novelist and essayist, attacked the abortion advocates.
THE SUNDAY TIMES of May 19th wades in on the same side as THE OBSERVER, with an article by Sarah Baxter. It is headed “A roar of defiance from the old, ugly Alabama.” The sub-heading ban takes me back to my childhood in the roiling US South.”
Baxter is British and lived in Montgomery, Alabama in the 1960s where her father was posted by the RAF. Montgomery was the epicentre of the Civil Rights Movement, where Rosa Parks refused to give her seat on a bus to a white man, where Governor George Wallace had declared for “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever”. She
says that growing up there gave her a confidence in progress, believing Martin Luther King’s hopeful claim that “the arc
of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”
It’s 51 years since King was murdered and the West’s Governments have never got themselves a moral compass.They
have unleashed wars killing millions on faked dossiers. The RAF, founded as a terrorist force, according to the British historian AJP Taylor, in the 1920s “policed” Iraq using tactics copied by the Luftwaffe in Guernica much later, and was still at that task 90 years later. Progress, Ms Baxter?
Only someone with a heart of stone, or shit for brains, could support the killing of a child with a beating heart.
TO BE CONTINUED.
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