dana 2.jpgIn her RH Reality Check column, “When Obama voted ‘no,'” Dana Goldstein wrote yesterday:

… Yes, Obama voted “present” instead of “no” [as state senator] on 7 bills that would have limited women’s reproductive rights….
But while the Democratic campaigns and women’s organizations quibbled over which 100% pro-choice Senator, Obama or Hillary Clinton, would be… better… many choice advocates missed what was percolating under the radar… a conservative smear campaign against Obama’s… support for reproductive freedom.
The anti-choice anti-Obama strategy is based on Obama’s clear “no” votes on the “IL Born Alive Infant Protection Act“…. Leading anti-choice blogger Jill Stanek, who testified in the IL state Senate on behalf of the bill, has played a key role in disseminating this anti-Obama argument in the right-wing blogosphere.

Finally, a little credit! Thank you, Dana.
But from that splendid launch, Dana’s column fizzled, sad to say….


First Dana incorrectly pegged partial birth abortion (dilatation and extraction, D&X) as BAIPA’s target, oddly describing the brain-suctioning-head-crushing part as “capsizing the skull.”
obama swimming.jpgI looked up “capsize” in both my trusty medical and Webster’s dictionaries and could find no other definition than, “to cause to overturn.” In my mind this procedural variation would make it difficult, as Dana rationalized, to “allow[] a woman or couple to grieve and bring closure to a pregnancy by holding the intact fetus.”
Daena next devised a variation for dilation and evacuation (D&E) dismemberment abortions: “[t]he aspiration process is sometimes preceded by an injection into the abdomen that ensures fetal demise,” wrote Dana.
“Aspiration” means to suction, and it would be impossible to suction 2nd trimester baby parts unless using an industrial vacuum cleaner hose, which I wouldn’t put it past abortionists to attempt. Dana may know something.
And “[i]njection into the abdomen”? No, that’s an injection of a drug into the baby’s heart through the mother’s abdomen causing instant cardiac arrest. And this injection isn’t needed for D&E abortions, when the abortionist rips apart the baby’s rib cage before removal, causing instant cardiac arrest sans drugs.
Dana remained linguistically creative to the end, closing with a word to the unwise about us:

[T]hey plan to peel moderate and Republican support away from Obama by painting him as a heartless politician who closed his ears to the cries of “abortion survivors.” Let it serve as a reminder that supporters of reproductive rights have bigger fish to fry than one another.

Now I was busy yesterday but awakened this morning to find Dana’s commenters had begun frying poor me! I find I’m illogical, biased, cruel, a troll, have a poor relationship with the truth and am a liar, and I write an insane blog.
And Dana started out so well. I’m crushed.
Well, maybe I’d better not use that word since Dana and her side appear averse to it.
I’m capsized. That’s better.
[HT: friend Autumn; Dana’s photo is courtesy of DanaGoldstein.com]

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