During a news brief on the Saturday, May 23, The Early Show, CBS’s Priya David used that famous euphemism of liberals, “woman’s right to choose,” to refer to the legal right to an abortion, as the show gave attention to Liberty University’s recent decision to withdraw recognition of the school’s club for young Democrats. She also incorrectly exaggerated Liberty's action by claiming that the Democratic group "won't be allowed on campus anymore" when in reality, according to the school, the group can still hold meetings, but just cannot use the school's name or money.
On the Monday, May 18, Today show, NBC’s Ann Curry also used the term in a story about President Obama’s speech at Notre Dame, which allowed the pro-choice President to speak despite being a Catholic university.
Below are complete transcripts of the relevant news briefs from the Saturday, May 23, The Early Show, on CBS, and the Monday, May, 18, Today show, on NBC:
#From the May 16 The Early Show:
PRIYA DAVID: Virginia’s Liberty University has its College Democrats club, but it won’t be allowed on campus anymore. The reason, the school says, core Democratic principles – like supporting a woman’s right to choose, and gay and lesbian rights – go against the university’s moral principles. Liberty is a private university founded by the Reverend Jerry Falwell.
#From the May 18 Today show:
ANN CURRY: Meantime, President Obama jumped into the controversial issue of abortion on Sunday during his commencement address at Notre Dame, a Catholic university. The President, who supports a woman's right to choose, called on the nearly 3,000 graduates to have, quote, "open hearts, open minds and fair-minded words." At times his speech was interrupted by protesters who were immediately escorted out of the building.
—Brad Wilmouth is a news analyst at the Media Research Center.
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May 27, 2009 - 15:03 ET by Eugenia"The President, who supports a woman's right to choose..."
Gosh, you know, these libs are always in such a hurry, so much on their plate, so much to do! They never get to finish that sentence.
Eugenia...
June 8, 2009 - 13:38 ET by bigtimerSpot on!
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
It's good to know that they
May 27, 2009 - 15:25 ET by HockeyKidIt's good to know that they support a woman's right to choose to carry a gun for personal protection. After all, if she can protect herself from a potential rapist, she won't have to worry about that thorny abortion issue at all.
Let's hear it for a woman's right to choose! (My wife chooses a Springfield XD-M, FWIW...)
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Hear Hear!
May 27, 2009 - 16:56 ET by boomerconMy wife chooses a Charter Arms Undercover, 38 special. Just point and click (or BANG, as the case may be).
Works every time!
Whenever some yahoo uses
May 27, 2009 - 15:29 ET by Dan The Man 2Whenever some yahoo uses that term, I finish it for them. Right to choose, you mean right to choose death for a baby? A lot of times it makes the people flustered or mad but that is what we are talking about.
Democrats slogan "Death to Babies"; man if they used that instead of abortion there would be truth in advertising.
Spot on Dan
May 27, 2009 - 16:15 ET by jdlybrandThey never finish the phrase. If more people heard 'woman's right to choose to terminate the life of their child' ; maybe more people would be outraged at the fact our laws allow indescriminate murder.
I also wonder why it's *a*
May 27, 2009 - 16:35 ET by GrannyGrump42I also wonder why it's *a* woman's right. When you use the indefinite article like that, you're referring to only one. Who is this woman? And why the hell can't she make up her mind already? It's been over thirty years!
Lol!!!
May 27, 2009 - 17:19 ET by EugeniaWell, you know, it's "a" woman's prerogative not to be able to make up her mind. :-P
Post-Clinton
May 27, 2009 - 20:43 ET by jdlybrandI guess it depends on what the definition of the word "a" is. LOL
Capitalizing in on the "right to choose" jingle.
May 27, 2009 - 15:37 ET by Gary HallCapitalizing in on the "right to choose" jingle. Often when I'm pushed from someone with the, "woman's right to choose," euphemism.. I liken it to a jingle - for a commercial. LSMFT comes to mind. I don't know why.
Other times, I'll ask them, "what about the unborn child's right?" or, "what about a man's right?" Do women then, have other judicial given rights?
Speaking of a man's rights. Doesn't this sort of 'right's think' lead to other rights? Back to a "man's rights:"
One thing always progresses to something else. The progressive left had better look out - there are worst things out there in the world than 1/2 of their neighbors who happen to respect the "right to life."
One Islamic terrorist just might not be someone's else's freedom fighter; rather they might be a woman's (who believes in rights) worst enemy.
(;~/ gary
"A woman's right to choose"?
May 27, 2009 - 16:33 ET by GrannyGrump42"A woman's right to choose"? Which woman? And right to choose what? And -- more to the point, since they've been slinging that euphemism around for over 30 years -- when the hell is she going to make up her mind?
(They have to know that what they're backing is deplorable when they refuse to even speak its name. It's like the way Harry Potter characters refuse to say "Voldemort". In fact, I might start referring to abortion, abortion advocacy, and the abortion lobby as "Voldemort".)
Women already have the "right to choose"
May 27, 2009 - 16:57 ET by Kat Outta the BagThe choice is called Contraception.
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May 27, 2009 - 17:21 ET by EugeniaBut what happens when the contraception fails and an "accident" -- not a human -- ensues?
That depends
May 27, 2009 - 18:14 ET by Kat Outta the BagIf you value life, you deal with the consequences and continue the pregnancy, either keeping the child or giving it to be adopted by someone who wants to raise him/her.
If you don't care about unborn life, you treat it like an inconvenient prom night zit and squeeze the life out of it...literally.
This is new-liberal media bias, straight up.
May 27, 2009 - 19:56 ET by lotrThis is new-liberal pop-media bias, straight up.
"Let's wrap him up, alright?" -- Keith Olbermann
Can men choose too? I
May 29, 2009 - 11:22 ET by rbosqueCan men choose too?
I choose a nice robusto Romeo & Julietta cigar after I choose a ribeye steak with bluecheese dressing.
I'd also like to choose to carry a firearm wherever I go...oh wait...that Constitutional Right has restrictions even though they aren't written in the Constitution.
Killing babies however...
Sage advice
June 8, 2009 - 13:34 ET by Bighead227and so eloquently stated by the One. Open hearts and open minds about tearing babies from their mother's wombs or blowing up innocents on a bus or flying them into buildings. Fair-minded words like a woman's right to choose, or man caused disasters. Don't call abortions abortions or terrorists terrorists (or abortionists abortionists for that matter) use fair-minded words so we can excuse the action and sure enough victimize the murderers. Soon enough fair-minded words will disappear forever the already clouded line between right and wrong. God help us.