OP ED SLAMS NYT FOR PRO-SCIENCE, RATIONALITY BIAS

From JSwift News Service.

COLUMN IN WASHINGTON POST COURIER OF 10/17/12

                 ONE MAN'S OPINION IS AS GOOD AS ANOTHER'S 

                                        by Anthony Comstock
         

The pro-science, anti common sense, liberal media are at it again.  When Congressman Todd Akin pointed out that victims of rape have biological defenses that prevent pregnancy ("If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down"), the idea was shot down in such ultra liberal media publications as the New York Times.   The Times ignored the reality that U.S. Representatives are in Congress have access to classified intelligence, and that, no doubt, the CIA, FBI, and NSA gave Aiken briefings on the subject  using their considerable expertise on rape, waterboarding, and other forms of human degradation.  

Because of national security concerns Akin, in all probability,  cannot reveal the classified material from these intelligence sources that would prove his rape contentions.  While this is unfair to both Akin and the cause of the truth, after the tragic experience of 9/11 national security concerns must remain paramount.

Now, today,  in the New York Times of September 17, 2012,  we learn that Mary Spaulding Balch of the National Right To  Life Committee has expressed a view similar to Rep. Akin's on the issue of abortion and fetal pain.  Balch contends that abortions should be outlawed before 22 month development because the unborn feel pain.  When scientists pointed out to her that if fetuses do feel pain, that pain would be unbearable during child birth.   Balch responded, ". . . there is something that is produced that prevents pain for babies being born."

When one reads the Times' reporters article on this other of Balch's statements,  and it is supposed to be unbiased,  one sees that the article oozes contempt for both Ms. Balch and her statements.   But this is unfair.  We live in a democracy where everyone is entitled to one's opinion.  In our democratic republic one citizen's idea is as good as any others.  Certainly, the beliefs of Mary Spaulding Balch and Rep. Todd Aiken are equal to those of any scientist or medical doctor.

But not in the eyes of the New York Times with their notorious cow-towing to supposed expertise.  It's time that a responsible press respect the opinions of all, print "all the news that's fit to print," in an objective, fair way.  It's time for common sense and fair play.