Ms. Klass,

I am sorry to see that you decided not to even attempt to do objective journalism here. The pro-life movement draws 2,000 people, and the 60 raving socialists get the top billing in your article?

Steve

When the reporter interviewed me, she told me she didn’t attend the event. She just arrived for the aftermath. It’s hard to expect accurate reporting if she didn’t bother to show up.

Laura Karlen

Oh puke.

Imagine a TV/video commercial:
It shows an ultrasound of an unborn baby while a caption reads, ‘The child’s future is a broken home. He will be abandoned by his father. His single mother will struggle to raise him. Despite hardships, the child will become the first African-American president.’

Life — Imagine the Potential.

Hope! Change! Abort!

What I’m disgusted with, besides the abysmal “objective” coverage, is the fact that the Badger Herald feels the need to gloss over this issue naming the sides “abortion rights” and “anti-abortion”. They’re pro-choice and pro-life. If you’re going to be objective, Badger Herald, you might want to frame things more positively instead of AGAIN putting the more conservative viewpoint as the rejected, anti-viewpoint.

What would Bill Buckley say?

Uh 12:42, “pro-abortion rights” and “anti-abortion” are much more objective than “pro-choice” or “pro-life.”

Argue the sides, not the political correctness of the terms used to describe them.

It seems so very ironic that such a liberal, pro-abortion president, Obama, was a very good candidate himself to be aborted by his own mother. One would think that would cause him to think about this issue a little more clearly. Obviously many of the people on the pro-abortion side haven’t counseled a woman that has made this decision that will haunt her for the rest of her life.

i like to say that you are either pro-life or pro-death. saying ‘choice’ makes people fell not as bad about themselves when they should simply say they are pro-death.

According to the 2008 AP Style book, the correct terminology to use in journalistic work for pro-life is anti-abortion. For pro-abortion the correct wording is abortion rights. Take that 12:42 p.m.! If you are going to talk shit about the terrible “objective” work, make sure YOU know what you are talking about before you go on your own little rant.

Pro-life, pro-death, anti-abortion, pro-baby eating - the nomenclature is not the issue, but the discussion thus far has been amusing. I wonder how much longer both sides will continue to argue over semantics before delving into the meaty goodness of the issue. (But while I’m on the topic, I like the idea of being pro-death. It also makes me feel less guilty about laughing at the Darwin Awards.)

To the poster dreaming up the TV commercial, here’s an alternate take for you:

The first shot is a close-up of a smiling mother and child at the park. The mother is pushing the child on the swing, and both are laughing.

The next shot is of the child crying in the arms of her father at her mother’s funeral. Neither the child’s mother nor the child with whom she was pregnant survived the life threatening complications that occurred during her pregnancy.

This child will grow up without her mother. Pre-natal testing identified the risks, but an abortion wasn’t available in the community where the family lives.

Or perhaps another one: The first shot shows a teenaged girl in a courtroom watching as her attacker is sentenced to 20 years in prison for raping her.

In the second shot, the teenager and her mother are in the bathroom staring at a stick with a telltale plus sign on it.

Should she be forced to carry this product of rape inside her for 9 months? I mean, Imagine the potential.

Wow. This paper just keeps getting worse. Even the police said that the pro-life delegation had the socialists outnumbered by easily more than 20 to 1. But who does the article highlight? The handful of greasy-haired hippies who showed up to scream obscenities. This isn’t journalism, this is just spin. What absolute tripe. Miss Klass, from one journalist to another, you are a disgrace.

It doesn’t matter how many holy rollers show up for a rally. Nothing is going to change. Get used to it.

Holy Smokes Moochie it looks like you made a ton of enemies writing this article.

For all the men that bothered to comment on this article and state their anti-abortion attitudes, you will NEVER understand how a women feels when she discovers she is pregnant, especially if she is a teenager without the support of her family or the father of her child. It is impossible for me to fathom how people can condemn an action when they themselves have never been in that situation.