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Mary Elizabeth Williams.<\/p><\/div>\n

Prolific columnist Mary Elizabeth Williams describes herself as a \u201cwriter, consultant, and radio commentator with about a thousand years experience, give or take a century.\u201d The sassy Mary Elizabeth, author of the memoir Gimme Shelter: My Three Years Searching for the American Dream<\/i>, is also a staff writer at Salon.com. Almost daily, Mary, or MEW<\/a> for short, churns out an opinion piece or two where she rants on about whatever is current in Hollywood, politics, breaking news, and religion.<\/p>\n

Although Williams describes herself as a \u201cpracticing Catholic,\u201d she recently wrote a piece with the provocative tag line: \u201cI believe that life starts at conception. And it’s never stopped me from being pro-choice.\u201d The article that followed was entitled<\/a> \u201cSo what if abortion ends life?\u201d<\/p>\n

Based on the subject of that article, and judging from her Catholic-school name of Mary Elizabeth, there\u2019s a good chance that although the columnist rejects the Roman Catholic doctrine on the sanctity of life, she still believes that there is merit in going to confession.<\/p>\n

On the 40th<\/sup> anniversary of Roe v. Wade<\/em>, Ms. Mary managed to do what pro-choice people have simply refused to do, and that is to admit that abortion is killing. Not only that, but Ms. Williams also had the chutzpah to admit that executing a pre-born child on a whim is a perfectly acceptable option.<\/p>\n

In the article, it seems that Williams\u2019s goal was to defuse what she sees as a pro-life ploy. Mary E. maintains that the reason why pro-life advocates try to convince pro-choicers that a baby is alive from the moment of conception is to prove that having an abortion takes a life. MEW thinks pro-lifers believe that once the \u201clife\u201d aspect is acknowledged, that realization has the power to morally sway those who devalue life to rethink the pro-choice position.<\/p>\n

Mary suggests that pro-choicers intrinsically know but won\u2019t admit that a fetus is a living being because they believe that if they did, they\u2019d \u201cflub it for the cause.\u201d Therefore, Williams takes it upon herself to exhort pro-choice America to go ahead and admit that a fetus is alive, and then admit that the knowledge that a fetus is living in no way impacts their decision to have an abortion.\u00a0 Williams contends that by admitting to those beliefs, the word \u201clife\u201d is thereby neutralized and the \u201canti-choice lobby\u201d disarmed.<\/p>\n

Amazingly, it took Catholic-girl honesty to explain to the abortion-happy left that the 40-year-old “fetus is not a life” argument has been \u201cillogically contradictory.\u201d Mary brings up the irrational inconsistency often exhibited in liberal women when their wanting a child is what magically transforms material for a red bio-hazard bag into a precious cuddly baby. Williams also points out, and rightly so, that \u201c[f]etuses aren\u2019t selective[.] \u2026 They don\u2019t qualify as human life only if they\u2019re intended to be born.\u201d<\/p>\n

In her column, Ms. Williams also chides the death-culture faithful for allowing \u201carchconservatives [to] browbeat\u201d them with the concept of life and use \u201cscare tactics\u201d and \u201cindefensible violation[s]\u201d such as \u201cforced ultrasound[s].\u201d To Mary Elizabeth, it matters not if the ultrasound shows a dimpled baby hiccuping or sucking its thumb. So what if the screen proves that the child is alive, feels pain, and winces? In Williams’s opinion, it\u2019s time for those Americans who believe in \u201cunrestrictive reproductive freedom\u201d to stop hiding behind words like \u201cchoice\u201d and \u201creproductive rights\u201d and buck up and admit that to them, slaughtering 60 million defenseless babies is really no big deal.<\/p>\n

Liberal Mary Elizabeth confesses that her philosophy comes from her conviction that \u201c[a]ll life is not equal.\u201d Therefore, a human being growing inside a woman\u2019s womb, based on location alone, is at its mother\u2019s mercy, and well it should be. According to Williams, \u201c[Mom\u2019s] the boss. Her life and what is right for her circumstances and her health should automatically trump the rights of the non-autonomous entity inside of her. Always.\u201d<\/p>\n

To further underscore the \u201ca life worth sacrificing\u201d argument, Mary Elizabeth Williams plays the moral equivalency card. According to the Salon.com writer, Americans kill people all the time, or what she clinically calls making \u201cchoices about life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Williams contends that Americans make \u201cchoices about life\u201d concerning \u201cmen and women in other countries<\/a>\u201d when we bomb them; \u201cwe make them about prisoners in our penal system\u201d when we execute convicted murderers; and \u201cwe make them about patients with terminal illnesses<\/a>\u00a0and accident victims<\/a>\u201d by ending their lives when we accidentally trip over the cord to Granny\u2019s respirator and unplug it from the wall. Therefore, killing a baby shouldn\u2019t be viewed as much different.<\/p>\n

Despite her macabre argument, Mary Elizabeth Williams herself is sick with Stage 4 distant metastatic melanoma that has spread over her body by spreading from her scalp<\/a> to her lungs and bloodstream.<\/p>\n

Ironically, the woman advocating for taking the lives of the helpless is desperately trying to save her own life; she is currently at the mercy of an experimental Phase 1 immunotherapy trial at Sloan-Kettering in New York City. If doctors were to consider Mary\u2019s life \u201ca life worth sacrificing,\u201d she\u2019d probably already be dead (we hope she recovers). Yet even now, if she learned she was with child, Mary would still say, \u201cYou bet your ass I\u2019d have an abortion. I\u2019d have the World\u2019s Greatest Abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Abortion or no abortion, the motivating factor for MEW writing the coldly candid abortion-rights advice column might be that as cancer stalks her mid-life years, being a penitent Catholic\/\u201cnon-extreme Christian<\/a>\u201d and all, she may have felt moved to come clean and admit that abortion is indeed ending a life. And as shocking as that admission is, kudos to Mary Elizabeth Williams for stepping forward on behalf of pro-choice Americans and confirming that for some, butchering the unborn, partially born, or a baby born alive during a botched abortion is a murder she and they consider well worth committing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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