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Earlier this month, the editors of the\u00a0New York Times<\/a> made no effort to hide their pro-abortion bias with their piece, “The Reproductive Rights Rollback of 2015.”<\/a><\/p>\n

The pro-life movement of 2015 has much to celebrate:\u00a0the closure of abortion facilities<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0the pro-life\u00a0laws<\/a> that have been passed. But\u00a0the\u00a0New York Times, right\u00a0from the start, lets us know what their angle is:<\/p>\n

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How many laws making it harder to get an abortion will pass before the Supreme Court sees them for what they are \u2014 part of a\u00a0tireless, coordinated nationwide assault\u00a0on the right of women to control what happens with their own bodies without the interference of politicians?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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When it comes to these laws, the editors think that they have found an “aha” moment. They point out:<\/p>\n

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Most of the time, lawmakers are clever enough to disguise their true intent by claiming that their interest is in protecting women\u2019s physical or mental health.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But then\u00a0the very next sentence reads:<\/p>\n

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But now and then the facade falls away, as when the Mississippi governor, Phil Bryant,\u00a0called\u00a0a set of restrictions he signed into law in 2012 \u201cthe first step in a movement\u201d that aims to \u201cend abortion in Mississippi.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Sorry, NYT, the two ideas\u00a0need not be mutually exclusive.<\/p>\n

Lawmakers in the United States are forced to work within a very tight framework from\u00a0Roe v. Wade\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Doe v. Bolton.\u00a0<\/em>Certain laws are proposed and passed where they can be, which involve making the procedure at least safer for the woman if it is going to be legal. When \u00a0the abortion industry can’t hold up to the legal scrutiny, that says something about the abortion industry rather than the laws.<\/p>\n

If the abortion industry cannot hold up to such basic safety standards, these laws may very well be the start to ending abortion.<\/p>\n

Taking a play from the abortion industry, the editors refer\u00a0to these laws as “TRAP laws.”<\/p>\n

The NYT editors also discuss\u00a0the pro-life laws passed in Texas, which the U.S. Supreme Court will soon examine,<\/a>\u00a0as well as\u00a0a highly problematic study on self-abortions (read the long list of problems with the\u00a0study here<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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Among other burdens, this increases the chance that a woman will try to end her pregnancy on her own. This is extremely risky, and in some states it is even grounds for\u00a0a charge of attempted murder.\u00a0One study, based on a recent survey, estimated that 100,000 to 240,000 Texas women ages 18 to 49 have attempted a self-induced abortion without medical assistance. These women, the study found, were significantly more likely than average to have less access to basic reproductive-health services like birth control.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The editors also point to one Pew Research poll<\/a>\u00a0that claims defunding Planned Parenthood is\u00a0“politically unpopular.” No mention is made of the U.S. Senate voting to defund Planned Parenthood, or<\/a>\u00a0of the countless votes from the U.S. House of Representatives to do so.<\/p>\n

But the real narrow-mindedness of the NYT editors comes in the form of what might as well be a script from Planned Parenthood:<\/p>\n

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… The organization, which is the only reproductive-health service provider for millions of poorer women, is already prohibited by law from using federal funds for almost all abortions.<\/p>\n

That doesn\u2019t matter to anti-choice activists in places like\u00a0Wisconsin\u00a0and\u00a0Indiana, where efforts by conservative lawmakers and governors have forced even those Planned Parenthood clinics that\u00a0don\u2019t perform any abortions\u00a0to shut down. A\u00a0result\u00a0is that many lower-income women lose access to basic health care as well as contraceptive services that would make them less likely to have unintended pregnancies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What these editors don’t seem to want to understand is that there are many reasons to defund Planned Parenthood, regardless of the claim that taxpayer dollars cannot go directly towards abortion. Many Americans simply do not want their hard-earned dollars going towards an organization affiliated with abortion in\u00a0any<\/em> way. Many Americans also feel\u00a0that such an organization should have to operate standing\u00a0on its own two feet.<\/p>\n

The NYT editors close with this:<\/p>\n

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By any reasonable measure, Texas\u2019 law places an undue burden on women seeking abortion services and should be struck down. Beyond doing that, the justices must send a clear and broad message affirming the constitutionally protected right of women to determine the course of their reproductive lives. Political opponents have shown how quickly they can regroup and find ways to restrict or obliterate programs and services women need.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Such a view is hardly “any reasonable measure.” It’s a biased, narrow-minded and abortion-obsessed view, which completely disregards the actual<\/em> lives (“reproductive lives” included) of the human beings killed by abortion.<\/p>\n

On the bright side: when the editors of the New York Times are complaining, pro-lifers may have something to take delight in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier this month, the editors of the\u00a0New York Times made no effort to hide their pro-abortion bias with their piece, “The Reproductive Rights Rollback of 2015.” The pro-life movement of 2015 has much to celebrate:\u00a0the closure of abortion facilities\u00a0and\u00a0the pro-life\u00a0laws that have been passed. But\u00a0the\u00a0New York Times, right\u00a0from the start, lets us know what their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":83845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[6607,140,14,82,6861],"yoast_head":"\nNew York Times editors lament pro-life laws of 2015<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"When the editors\u00a0of the New York Times are complaining, pro-lifers may have something to take delight in.\" \/>\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\/new-york-times-editors-lament-pro-life-laws-2015\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New York Times editors lament pro-life laws 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