Moral BS from NARAL
(We saw this same ploy in Connecticut earlier this year.) Apparently, it sees itself as an inside player helping the Democrats keep from having to go out on a limb on the abortion issue. They are allowing themselves to be used as a shield against their most ardent supporters.That is, to say the least, a very unusual strategy. They have to know they have dramatically lost credibility with those of us who consider the right to choose a fundamental matter of personal liberty. And if NARAL doesn’t represent us, it represents nobody.”
NARAL is useless. Utterly useless. I won’t give them any money, and neither should you. There are much better groups, like Planned Parenthood and NOW, among others.
Over the course of the past two days I have learned that Nancy Keenan, at least in the 1990s believed that “As a Catholic, I accept the teaching of my church on abortion. That is my personal religious belief . . . As a public official, there is no question in my mind that depriving women of the right to follow their conscience is the same as imposing religious beliefs.” (Boston Globe, 1/1/1990). So I find myself asking the same question as firedoglake: “[A]fter yesterday’s weird decision by Keenan (contra Planned Parenthood) not to challenge Brownback’s fetal anesthesia bill, it’s worth thinking about the wisdom of hiring someone to head an organization who believes that the right she is tasked with defending is a mortal sin.”
Nancy Keenan is a sellout. As long as she’s heading up NARAL, I will have nothing good to say about the organization.
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