{"id":60436,"date":"2015-03-05T11:07:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T16:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=60436"},"modified":"2015-03-05T19:25:39","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T00:25:39","slug":"amanda-marcotte-condemns-predatory-men-and-supports-the-policies-that-help-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/amanda-marcotte-condemns-predatory-men-and-supports-the-policies-that-help-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Marcotte condemns predatory men\u2026. And supports the policies that help them"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eight years ago, Time<\/em> magazine described<\/a> Amanda Marcotte as \u201can outspoken voice of the left.\u201d Since then, the blogger has built a reputation as someone who\u2019s always ready to condemn misogynists and scoundrels. Well, unless she happens to have worked for them, of course.<\/p>\n

In 2007, Marcotte took a job on John Edwards\u2019 presidential campaign. The former North Carolina senator would later admit to having an extramarital affair while his wife was stricken with cancer–exactly the sort of behavior that you\u2019d expect to earn a barrage of feminist fury.<\/p>\n

Or not. The bulk of Ms. Marcotte\u2019s ire wasn’t directed towards the way that her old boss had betrayed a vulnerable woman. No, what really upset her was the fact that federal prosecutors decided to indict<\/a> Edwards after he was accused of sending campaign funds to his mistress.<\/p>\n

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While Amanda Marcotte may have been willing to go easy on John Edwards, she thankfully isn’t so forgiving of men who joke about rape and support lowering the age of consent to twelve. When a recent article<\/a> in GQ<\/em> claimed that this sort of behavior was tolerated at a gathering of men\u2019s rights activists, Marcotte denounced<\/a> the attendees as \u201cmisogynists,\u201d \u201cmanipulative abusers,\u201d and \u201cself-pitying creeps.\u201d But while she\u2019s quick to attack alleged misogynists and abusers, she also champions a cause that helps them out: abortion on demand and with no questions asked.<\/p>\n

Abortion is a useful method for hiding sexual abuse. After all, a baby bump can raise questions, especially when the person sporting it is below the age of consent. Gary Cross<\/a> encountered that problem after impregnating his thirteen year-old step-daughter. Luckily for him, Planned Parenthood was able to arrange a late term abortion, thus allowing the abuse to continue. Cross wasn’t unique, as the organization has aided plenty of other<\/a> predators too.<\/p>\n

Far from being aberrations, those cases seem to reflect a broader culture of accepting abuse at Planned Parenthood. The group Life Dynamics has recorded hundreds of calls<\/a> made to Planned Parenthood and National Abortion Federation centers by an actress who claimed to be underage and pregnant by her adult boyfriend. Time and again, staff were willing to facilitate statutory rape by setting up a secret abortion. Further, Planned Parenthood employees have also been caught offering to arrange abortions for child prostitutes, including those who \u201ccan\u2019t speak English<\/a>\u201d and \u201cwon\u2019t know what\u2019s going on<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n