{"id":18271,"date":"2012-06-25T23:28:50","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T03:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=18271"},"modified":"2013-04-03T22:04:36","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T02:04:36","slug":"naral-calls-newsweeks-balanced-personhood-article-jarring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/naral-calls-newsweeks-balanced-personhood-article-jarring\/","title":{"rendered":"NARAL calls newsweek&#8217;s balanced personhood article &#8220;jarring&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The most recent issue of\u00a0<em>Newsweek<\/em> magazine (July 2 &amp; 9, 2012) features a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/newsweek\/2012\/06\/24\/personhood-usa-s-keith-mason-eyes-election-day-2012.html\">behind-the-scenes look<\/a> at the burgeoning personhood movement. It highlights\u00a0Keith and Jennifer Mason of Personhood USA and their journey to found one of the largest and fastest-growing pro-life groups in the country.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18290\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18290\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18290 \" alt=\"\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/mason.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18290\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keith Mason<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And you know what&#8217;s shocking? It&#8217;s a positive review. Instead of portraying the Masons as extreme misogynistic prudes leading the charge in the &#8220;War on Women,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Newsweek<\/em> portrays the personhood movement as cool, edgy, youthful, and &#8211; most importantly &#8211; growing. In less than five years,\u00a0Personhood USA has begun initiatives in all 50 states through more than 80,000 volunteers who have already collected more than a million signatures to abolish abortion.<\/p>\n<p>That kind of progress, fairly reported in a balanced article by a major news outlet, scares abortion advocates. For them, the idea of pro-life activists being presented to the public as\u00a0<em>cool<\/em> is simply too much to bear! No wonder NARAL called it a &#8220;jarring interview&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NARAL\/status\/217335304753917952\">on Twitter<\/a>.\u00a0In the article, NARAL admitted that personhood is &#8220;the more honest conversation to have\u201d and bemoaned the fact that Personhood USA has a &#8220;formidable presence in every state.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re right. Personhood USA is now collecting signatures for ballot efforts in <a href=\"http:\/\/personhoodco.com\/\">Colorado<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/personhoodohio.com\/\">Ohio<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/montanaprolifecoalition.org\/brochure.htm\">Montana<\/a> for the November elections and in <a href=\"http:\/\/personhoodfl.com\/\">Florida<\/a> for 2014. It&#8217;s a long road ahead, but, Keith tells <em>Newsweek<\/em>, &#8220;[a]s long as I have arms, I\u2019m gonna be swinging them.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As long as I have arms, I&#8217;m gonna be swinging them.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":18290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[1293,76,306,220,1260],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NARAL calls newsweek&#039;s balanced personhood article &quot;jarring&quot; - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/naral-calls-newsweeks-balanced-personhood-article-jarring\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NARAL calls newsweek&#039;s balanced personhood article &quot;jarring&quot; 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