And yes, ovaries are trumping balls these days.
As C.E. Petro observes somebody needs to grow a backbone, and it ain't NARAL.
NARAL president, Nancy Keenan has this to say about the controversial ad:
"It's tough and it's accurate," Ms. Keenan said.
"It has done exactly what we expected it to do," she added, namely to provide a "wake-up call" about the stakes for reproductive freedom at issue in the current Supreme Court vacancy.
"Conventional wisdom says the Roberts nomination is a done deal, so it behooves us to make sure the American public knows who John Roberts really is," she said.
Ms. Keenan, a former Montana state legislator who has headed the organization for the past year, said it was important to note that because the federal government was not a party in the Bray case, the administration's participation in the Supreme Court appeal was voluntary.
"They chose what side to take," she said. "That tells us something."
Factcheck.org charges that "the ad is false." Factcheck.org is apparently a subscriber to the worldview of Bush, i.e., like Bush, Factcheck.org owns the golden tablet of absolute truth. The rest of us are absolutely wrong. My kids felt that way too when they were about four years old.
NARAL responds by factchecking Factcheck.org and makes the following points. You can read them in their entirety at Bitch.Ph.d.
Factcheck.org Makes Factual Misstatement About “Clinic Bomber” Statement in ad; Factcheck.org Falsely Suggests that Roberts Did Not Support Bray Defendants; Factcheck.org Makes Factual Misstatement About Timeline Used in Ad; Factcheck.org Makes Factual Misstatement About Roberts’ Legal Argument; Factcheck.org Minimizes John Roberts’ Role in Filing of the Bray Brief; Factcheck.org Minimizes Operation Rescue’s Lawlessness; Factcheck.org Is Profoundly Misguided To State That Operation Rescue’s Behavior Is Akin to the Civil Rights Movement.
On that last outlandish claim which dares to put Randall Terry on the same level as Martin Luther King, see this post at Lawyers Guns and Money:
"As previously mentioned, NARAL did a convincing job of demolishing this typically atrocious FactCheck.org article. One claim made by the hack who wrote it, however, is offensive on so many levels it demands further attention: the argument that Operation Rescue's methods "mirrored the non-violent tactics used earlier by civil-rights activists." "
Newsday reports what we already knew, the White House, that bastion of truth and accuracy, calls the ad "false."
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