Hillary Understands That "Women's Rights are Human Rights" and She Would Never Have Said What Joe Biden Said in China

THIS "gaffe" by Joe Biden is more than mildly disturbing.

Kirsten Powers (linked) quotes the VP and then explains why his statement is a problematic...

The vice president told an audience at Sichuan University in Chengdu: “Your policy has been one which I fully understand—I’m not second-guessing—of one child per family.”

This was an appalling statement coming from an American leader. What’s next? Will he say he isn’t “second-guessing” and “fully understands” that women are stoned for adultery in Iran?

Chai Ling, a two-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee and former leader of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Democracy Movement, told me she was “shocked and troubled” by Biden’s statement. Ling founded the organization All Girls Allowed to fight the one-child policy, which affects most couples and is designed to limit growth in China, which at 1.3 billion people is the world’s most populous country.

“On behalf of all the Chinese women and girls,” she says, Biden’s “statements are very hurtful. The one-child policy means the child has to be killed, whether it is forced or coerced through pressure. The women don’t feel like they have a choice. In a culture that is not welcoming to women who get pregnant and keep the baby they will be persecuted, financially and politically by the government.”

There is a fundamental disconnect when the U.S. party that claims to be "pro-choice" sympathizes with any government's decision to intervene in a woman's fundamental right to decide if her baby will be born. (Or worse, be killed after she is born.) SYD is, and always has been, pro-choice. I find this "gaffe" to be telling. And I suspect that my "pro-life" sisters (and brothers) will agree with me on this point: Infanticide and Gendercide are no gaffing matters.

It's a sad day for the Dem party when it's pervasive bent toward "cultural relativism" takes the place of sound judgement and moral conviction. To the point of winking and nodding at abhorrant, anti-woman policies like the "one child" rule in China.

How To Lose The Pro-Choice PR Battle: Lessons From Notre Dame

Gallup would seem to suggest that the country is lurching to the Right on the Pro-Life issue.

Is it any wonder, really? I mean... when I see this:



it is no mystery to me whatsoever why Pro-Choicers are losing the PR battle.

H/T to PUMA blogger, Texas Darlin' who called my attention to this video. She apparently agrees that this kind of action is going waaaayyyyy too far.

Look, I am Pro-Choice. But I am also Pro-Free-Speech, and Pro-Freedom of Religion. I don't condone hauling 80 year old priests off of the property of their own schools and churches in handcuffs.

Abortion is a complex issue. Personally, I support a ban on late term abortions. As a nurse, I have seen what bordered on an LTA. You can tell me that wasn't murder, until you are blue in the face. I know what it looked like. And how it felt. It is not something I can allow myself to be part of again. Ever.

I believe in amnesty for doctors and nurses who object, out of conscience, to ANYTHING. That includes abortion and circumcision. I think there should be a process by which they can become C.O.s. Just as young pacifists who cannot serve, out of conscience, in the military do. I am sick to death of being bludgeoned by my sisters in the Pro-Choice movement, who tell me that by merit of my license, I should be required to participate in ANY procedure that ANY individual patient requests. No matter how heinous.

There I said it!

A few years ago... I would have simply said "I am Pro-Choice." No qualifiers.

I don't know if Pro-Choice advocates are planning to lose this round. Or if they really are just this out of touch? But, I can say this.... after fighting for thirty years, for a woman's right to choose ... many of their positions seem preposterous to me at this moment.

Can anyone here enlighten me as to what my sister's in the movement are thinking? (And don't feed me that "Slippery Slope" B.S. I am way beyond that, and simply do not buy it.)

SYD