{"id":14754,"date":"2012-04-16T12:50:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T16:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.www.liveactionnews.org\/?p=14754"},"modified":"2013-04-03T01:25:05","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T05:25:05","slug":"bachmann-bashing-thinkprogress-fails-biology-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/bachmann-bashing-thinkprogress-fails-biology-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Bachmann-bashing ThinkProgress fails biology 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/michele-bachmann.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14755 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/michele-bachmann-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a>If you write for the health section of a prominent website, shouldn\u2019t you have a working knowledge of basic human biology? Apparently not if that website is ThinkProgress, where Rebecca Leber <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/health\/2012\/04\/15\/464673\/anti-abortion-bachmann-says-women-need-to-make-their-own-decisions-about-their-bodies\/\">claims to have caught<\/a> pro-life Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann in an inconsistency about women\u2019s health.<\/p>\n<p>Discussing health care on MSNBC, Bachmann said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What we want is women to be able to make their own choices [&#8230;] We want women to make their own choices in healthcare. You see that\u2019s the lie that happens under Obamacare. The President of the United States effectively becomes a health care dictator. <strong>Women don\u2019t need anyone to tell them what to do on health care. We want women to have their own choices, their own money, that way they can make their own choices for the future of their own bodies. <\/strong>[Emphasis in original.]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Leber questions the \u201cirony\u201d of Bachmann\u2019s answer, given the \u201cGOP war on women targeting Planned Parenthood, abortion services, and contraception coverage\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bachmann doesn\u2019t believe a women\u2019s right to choose applies in all cases, though, promising on the presidential campaign trail that in addition to supporting an abortion ban, she <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2011\/12\/28\/gingrich-perry-bachmann-and-santorum-go-extreme-on-abortion.html\">wouldn\u2019t allow exceptions<\/a> for rape or for the woman\u2019s health.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It seems pro-aborts have been misusing terminology so long that they can no longer recognize its proper use. When pro-aborts talk about women controlling \u201ctheir own bodies,\u201d they really mean giving women free rein to control <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abort73.com\/abortion\/medical_testimony\/\"><em>someone else&#8217;s <\/em>body<\/a> (and by \u201ccontrol,\u201d they mean \u201cdestroy\u201d). When everyone else talks about women controlling \u201ctheir own bodies,\u201d they actually mean what it sounds like: women controlling <em>their own bodies<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Bachmann\u2019s not being hypocritical; she\u2019s just being honest and sensible. For her, freedom isn\u2019t just an empty word to rationalize selfish atrocities like abortion, but a concrete principle with clear implications and boundaries. Bachmann\u2019s freedom is the right to lead one\u2019s own life without external constraint or coercion, so long as one\u2019s choices don\u2019t infringe on the rights of others. Letting women \u201chave heir own choices, their own money\u201d over health care is freedom; letting them abort their babies isn\u2019t. America rejected the idea that personal freedom covered controlling another human being as property way back in the Civil War.<\/p>\n<p>If Ms. Leber\u2019s failed \u201cgotcha\u201d attempt has shown anything, it\u2019s that the fallout of rhetorical subterfuge isn\u2019t limited to the issue it\u2019s meant to obscure. By abusing the meaning of basic concepts like \u201cfreedom,\u201d \u201cchoice,\u201d and even \u201cbody,\u201d pro-abortion hacks conjure inconsistencies where none exist and erase necessary guidelines for logical reasoning, endangering the public\u2019s ability to make rational, informed decisions about policy matters such as health care.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, Michele Bachmann remains undaunted. Her political enemies may have spared no expense trying to paint her as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/#hl=en&amp;sugexp=frgbld&amp;gs_nf=1&amp;tok=w1ygPWndmJasHqqKtK3AmQ&amp;cp=20&amp;gs_id=8v&amp;xhr=t&amp;q=michele+bachmann+stupid&amp;pf=p&amp;sclient=psy-ab&amp;oq=michele+bachmann+stu&amp;aq=0&amp;aqi=g4&amp;aql=&amp;gs_l=&amp;pbx=1&amp;bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&amp;fp=cadfec1f1a8bdb\">stupid<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/#hl=en&amp;sugexp=frgbld&amp;gs_nf=1&amp;tok=WJCqojGQlokvPPbIyz1_6A&amp;cp=19&amp;gs_id=7c&amp;xhr=t&amp;q=michele+bachmann+crazy&amp;pf=p&amp;sclient=psy-ab&amp;oq=michele+bachmann+cr&amp;aq=0&amp;aqi=g4&amp;aql=&amp;gs_l=&amp;pbx=1&amp;bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&amp;fp=cadfec1f1a8bdbe3\">crazy<\/a>, but the truth is that Bachmann is better-informed and more clear-thinking than her fiercest detractors. What ThinkProgress deems a blunder is actually a much-needed blow against the abortion crowd\u2019s hijacking of the dictionary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you write for the health section of a prominent website, shouldn\u2019t you have a working knowledge of basic human biology? Apparently not if that website is ThinkProgress, where Rebecca Leber claims to have caught pro-life Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann in an inconsistency about women\u2019s health. 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