Stand Up and Be Counted

Michelle Malkin had this to say about the election.

I would like to add that social conservatives in D.C. will need to:

1. Stem the tide on pro-abortion attempts to pass FOCA and any attempts at late ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). Yep, you betcha, we're talking amendment-out-of-mothballs here. Currently, the ERA has expired-- previous votes by states have expired and it would, Constitutionally, have to go through the whole ratification process again. However, there is a serious movement afoot that says that the previous state votes from the 70s and early 80s should stand and states that didn't pass it before should be able to vote now and add to that total. It's not legit but since when did liberals care about that?

2. Filibuster any pro-abortion appointees to the Supreme Court.

3. Block any attempts to reverse long-standing pro-life legislation such as the Hyde Amendment.

4. Block any attempts to undermine or hamper the work of crisis pregnancy centers nationwide.

5. Vow to come back stronger and better in 2 years to re-take the House and the Senate.

Can we do it? You bet.

Don't apologize for what you believe. Don't apologize for voting for John McCain. Be proud of what you believe: unborn children and their mothers have survived and thrived because we have been there for them. They are the ones who need us now.

Don't give in and don't give up.

The New York Times Slips Up

Just when I think we've earned enough respect to at least be treated as a player in the world of the mainstream media, it sometimes throws a sucker punch to the pro-life movement.

The New York Times Fashion section ran an article Sunday about the lack of abortions in movies such as "Waitress" and "Knocked Up." Lamenting Hollywood's hesitancy to show "real-life women" who would seriously consider an abortion, the reporter, Mireya Navarro, writes at one point, "Many conservative bloggers have claimed 'Knocked Up' as an anti-choice movie, in part because the movie never presents abortion as a serious option."

Oooh, did you catch it? Right there-- "anti-choice."

Ouch.

NY Times editors may feel that the pro-life movement is "anti-choice" but the term doesn't belong on the pages of the Gray Lady. It is polemical and feeds into the pro-abortion side's desire to debate anything but abortion. It also, more importantly, defines us from the view of our opposition.

Now see, I can say "pro-abortion" because, as an opinion writer, I'm allowed.

The New York Times needs to issue a correction-- at the very least.