Highlight on Linda Greenhouse's Article -- Abortion and Racial Genocide

The abortion issue is coming into focus again after fading from the forefront for a couple of years. The current debate is over federal funding through Medicaid and Medicare and the new health care plan for terminating pregnancies. Since it is easier to incite riots based on falsehoods to polarize your opposition than to engage in a real discussion about issues with someone who you respect but who believes differently than you do, those against the funding have begun tying abortions to racial genocide. It is a classic ploy to shift the opposition into the devil position and muck the policy waters with irrelevant incendiary topics. I just read Linda Greenhouse's opinion article in the New York Times, and I think it is worth sharing -- take a gander and enjoy. Even if you don't agree with what she's saying, you should be able to acknowledge she's a fine writer.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/09/what-would-shirley-do/?ref=opinion