{"id":187645,"date":"2011-04-14T21:39:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T02:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/04\/14\/what-a-pathetic-excuse-for-an-advocacy-group\/"},"modified":"2011-04-14T21:39:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T02:39:00","slug":"what-a-pathetic-excuse-for-an-advocacy-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/04\/14\/what-a-pathetic-excuse-for-an-advocacy-group\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Pathetic Excuse for an Advocacy Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 394px;\"><object classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\" height=\"224\" width=\"384\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=42600564&amp;width=384&amp;height=224\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed name=\"msnbc6467ea\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" width=\"384\" height=\"224\" FlashVars=\"launch=42600564&amp;width=384&amp;height=224\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p>I was watching Maddow, and she had Terry O&#8217;Neill, the President of NOW on to discuss the spate of anti-abortion laws coming out of the wingnut legislatures, and O&#8217;Neill basically said that she would not challenge these laws, despite their being illegal under existing precedent, because they are afraid that the currents supreme court will simply overrule <i>Roe V. Wade<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>So, because victory is not certain, she, and her organization, will win a court challenge, they have decided not to fight for abortion rights at all.<\/p>\n<p>Conceding defeat is not an alternative to losing.&nbsp; If you never contest the issue, you lose.<\/p>\n<p>In conceding the battle in this way, not only do you allow states to criminalize abortions, but you prevent any meaningful political dialogue from anyone but the women hating nut jobs.<\/p>\n<p>They are conceding defeat in the face of a <b>possible<\/b> defeat, and anyone who sends them money is an idiot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was watching Maddow, and she had Terry O&#8217;Neill, the President of NOW on to discuss the spate of anti-abortion laws coming out of the wingnut legislatures, and O&#8217;Neill basically said that she would not challenge these laws, despite their being illegal under existing precedent, because they are afraid that the currents supreme court will &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123,971,972,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-civil-rights","category-justice","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}