{"id":82880,"date":"2015-12-18T12:39:10","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T17:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=82880"},"modified":"2015-12-18T13:37:30","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T18:37:30","slug":"newsweek-plea-abortion-compromise-suspiciously-one-sided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/newsweek-plea-abortion-compromise-suspiciously-one-sided\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsweek plea for abortion compromise suspiciously one-sided"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Remember Kurt Eichenwald? In 2013, we eviscerated<\/a> a hit piece by the Vanity Fair<\/em> writer that tried to argue his wife\u2019s battle with breast cancer somehow illustrated the \u201cmurderous cruelty\u201d of pro-lifers for opposing Planned Parenthood. Now he\u2019s back with a new article<\/a> at Newsweek.<\/p>\n

No, it\u2019s not an update on whether Cecile Richards’ admission that her organization doesn’t do mammograms<\/a> undermines his original attack. It may be hard to believe given the partisan lies he told in Vanity Fair <\/em>and his obscenity-laden reaction<\/a> to critics at the time, but this week he actually tried out the role of a spokesman for the \u201crational middle\u201d – a peacemaker who wants to end the abortion stalemate brought on by \u201cabsolutists\u201d on both sides.
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[N]either side looks for a solution; they have simply descended into maudlin intellectual ping-pong, knocking the same claims back and forth, year after year. Those who are pro-choice believe, correctly, that all people have rights regarding their bodies. By that logic, an embryo or fetus is part of a woman, and she retains the right to make decisions as to whether she will bring that pregnancy to term. On the flip side, anti-abortion proponents argue that since every person alive was granted the right to be born, those who argue that life should be denied to others through an abortion are violating the golden rule.<\/p>\n

But public policy is not a philosophy class. Decades of listening to activists scream at each other proves that answers will never come from them. Instead, the rational middle has to examine the hypocrisy and flaws in the activists\u2019 positions and finally bring this war to an end.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Our first clue that Eichenwald\u2019s posturing isn\u2019t sincere, is how despite stringing together a litany of false complaints about pro-lifers, he hasn’t a single complaint about pro-choicers. Despite claiming that he sympathizes with both sides and seeks to temper the excesses of all involved, he hasn\u2019t found any<\/em> false claims, exaggerations, or dogmatism on the other side that hinders the reasonable solution he supposedly wants to build?<\/p>\n

What a coincidence\u2026<\/p>\n

\"Fetus<\/a>Indeed, the article reads less like a treatise on moderation and more like a rant of strung-together pro-abortion clich\u00e9s. The sheer number of them is too many to strike down in one sitting, plus we\u2019ve addressed it all before, so please check out the following links to past Live Action News takedowns of the lies Eichenwald attempts to revive here.<\/p>\n