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I'd be willing to at least listen to the arguments some of these people put forward if they'd just control themselves a little bit, but the pro-abortion crowd in Washington D.C. this last weekend was like a pack of rabid dogs.

From The National Review:

"I wish Barbara Bush had had choice available to her." That was a snippet of an ongoing conversation -- and it was characteristic of more than one -- overhead Sunday night on an Amtrak train from Washington, D.C., to New York City. The train was filled with March for Women's Lives participants.

And that was characteristic of the whole weekend. At a pre-march rally on Saturday night at the D.C. Armory by RFK Stadium, California congresswoman Maxine Waters told George W. Bush to "go to hell." Going to hell with him, said Waters, should be John Ashcroft, Don Rumsfeld, and Condi Rice. In a brief, non-impromptu speech, that's what a member of the United States Congress chose to say. (You'll be amused -- or horrified -- to know she was introduced as "the future president of the United States.")

Of course, there were plenty of relatively hum-drum placards and t-shirts, etc., around the nation's capital this weekend: "It's Your Choice...Not Theirs," "Stop Bush's War on Women," and the like. But you couldn't avoid the obvious: At the official march kickoff rally Saturday night, the most frequently used word was the f-word -- and I don't mean "feminist." There was a crass, angry framework to the whole march weekend, in fact. President Bush hates women, for sure. And, mercy be on any woman in the line of sight of John Ashcroft (that would be, for the record, every American woman). Abortionist George Tiller actually referred to Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Ashcroft as "the four horsemen of the apocalypse" -- which, I guess, makes eternal damnation all the more fitting. The war being waged is against women; as one attendee put it: "Pro-life is to Christianity as al Qaeda is to Islam."

What was desperately lacking at the March for Women's Lives was any sense of perspective.

Perspective indeed. The most disgusting thing about this event is how its leaders constantly tied the abortion issue to other women's rights issues as though the right for a woman to kill her baby were equivalent to a woman's right to equal pay or a sexual harassment-free workplace.

Baldilocks, via Rosemary, points out a Maxine Waters quote that shows just how out-of-touch with reality these people really are:

"I have to march because my mother could not have an abortion."

--US Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif) at Pro-Abortion Rally Sunday, April 25

I don't know about you, but I'm certainly glad that my mother couldn't have had, nor did she want to have, an abortion. You see, unlike Senators Clinton and Waters, my mother was a real woman who didn't shirk her responsibilities.

I wish somebody would explain to these women that the do have a choice when it comes to pregnancy. Its called abstaining from sex if you aren't ready or willing to deal with the consequences. From what I hear, its 100% effective.