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[Eagle Watch] Whoops! They did it again.
2.15.10
On the front page of today's (2/15/10) Berkshire Eagle, a headline directly contradicts the point of a story.
"Anti-abortion group conducts information protest" the headline reads, both on the front page of the hard copy Eagle and as the lead story on the Eagle's website today.
The reference is to a few people who were handing out cards at the opening of the Susan B. Anthony Museum in Adams, Mass., yesterday.
But if you read the story -- as apparently the headline writer neglected to do -- it makes clear that the issue here was not an anti-abortion protest, but precisely the opposite. The "information protest" was taking issue with the perception that the museum claims Anthony for the "pro-life" cause, given her opposition to abortion.
Anthony's opposition to abortion was based, as the article explains, "on the near-barbaric medical practices of the 19th century," which often left vulnerable, socially ostracized women maimed or dead on the "operating table," such as it was.
In other words, in its historical context, Anthony's concern was just an extension of her battle for women's rights, such as the right to vote. As the 'information protest' suggests, and as the article itself explains, "Anthony, they believe, would have been in favor of a women's right to choose," presumably the choice being for a safe, clean, healthy operation to determine the course of her own biology.
There is, in fact, a much more interesting story behind all this having to do with the museum itself and whether or not it brings to its celebration of Anthony's life and work a socio-political agenda of its own. But that's something that will have to be looked into at another time.
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