Feminist dilemma for 2012 (Ultra Barf Alert)

The Keene Sentinel ^ | June 18, 2011 | Mary Ann Sorrentino, former RI Planned Parenthood Exec Dir

[2ndDivisionVet]

Mary Ann Sorrentino was Executive Director of Planned Parenthood of RI, from 1977-1987 when it opened the first outpatient abortion clinic in RI, the most Roman Catholic state in the union (65%.) Predictably and of necessity, Sorrentino became, and remains, a leading advocate for reproductive rights and women’s rights in general. In 1985, the diocese of Providence tried to prevent her then 15-year-old daughter from being confirmed, and publicly declared Sorrentino excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church in a first-ever such declaration.

Rhode Islander Magazine named her one of the state’s “Bulldogs” for advocacy and she has been honored by NOW, The House of Compassion (AIDS), RI Rape Crisis, Travelers Aid for the Homeless, Survivors’ Network (Catholic survivors of sexual abuse by priests) and Planned Parenthood for her dedication to human rights causes.

Author: Abortion: The A Word – Real Women, Tough Choices, Personal Freedom.

The author

[RecoveringPaulisto]

The fact people like her detest Sarah Palin is one reason to like her. That’s one of the first things I look at in a candidate: “Do the right people hate you?”

[Flycatcher]

I, for one, don’t want to hand the red phone to anyone who can’t even spell “nuclear holocaust.” Do you?

But I bet she's fine with handing the red phone to someone who wants to protect all 57 states...

[CitizenM]

There is so much to debunk in this article where the woman simply has not done her homework...but...this, in particular, caught my attention:

to evaluate female presidential candidates by the same standards I use to evaluate male candidates. They should be experienced, appropriate, articulate, and knowledgeable in domestic and foreign policy so they can effectively represent this nation in critical national and international forums.

Yeah, right...I am sure Obama passed that evaluation. You know this Leftwinger voted for, and probably campaigned for that WH resident who has NONE of those qualifications. Guess for him, she lowered her standards.

[hellbender]

a leading advocate for reproductive rights

I recommend that people avoid adopting Leftist newspeak. Since when does killing babies mean "reproductive rights?" Reproduction means conceiving and bearing children. No one is blocking women from reproducing.

[2ndDivisionVet]

I didn’t write that, it’s from her bio.

[Joann37]

Planned parenthood exec? Of course!

[Grunthor]

This woman seems to find experience and knowledge to be important factors in voting for President. So she didn’t vote for Obama, did she?

[Diogenesis]

The author when weighed is found wanting in all but hubris.

[Dilbert San Diego]

This is BS on some levels.

If one is a feminist, and one wants to see women advance in politics, one has to realize that there is a whole spectrum of political ideology out there. Some women candidates for office will not be knee jerk liberals.

If one truly wants women to advance in politics, one must be intellectually honest enough to admit that such women may not agree with you politically on various issues. But, nonetheless, steps forward for women are taken when women run for and are elected to office.

It’s not even news anymore if a woman is elected a U.S. Senator, or the governor of a state.

A woman president will be elected in our lifetimes. It could happen sooner than we think. And it’s quite possible that this woman will be Republican.

It will still be a ground breaking achievement when a woman is elected president, if that woman is Republican. You can’t say you want advancement for women, but that only liberal women are allowed. At least if you are intellectually honest you can’t say that.

[mckenzie7]

But I bet she's fine with handing the red phone to someone who wants to protect all 57 states...

With the corpse men!

[RowdyFFC]

Ahhh, the femi-Nazi speaks out. Sorry lady but you do not represent the majority of womanhood. Especially since you TOTALLY represent the myth that women have some God-given right to murder their babies just so they can clear their social calendar and fit in their prom dress if they’re a teenager.

Ugh! Ugh! This kind of ugly nutjob is THE problem in this country.

[2ndDivisionVet]

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

I want to see women in the highest offices in the country, I really do. But I feel obligated to evaluate female presidential candidates by the same standards I use to evaluate male candidates. They should be

"... willing to champion my ability to butcher live babies. Lots and lots and lots of babies. BUCKETS of 'em."

[Genoa]

Beauty is skin deep, but ugly runs through and through.

[Past Your Eyes]

This needs a New Hampshire ping.
Keene is one of those liberal cesspools of NH. Not surprising to find a college there, as you would some of the other liberal cesspools like Hanover and Durham.

[Dilbert San Diego]

LOL, good editorial cartoon!!

[HereInTheHeartland]

That is a very good cartoon. It sums up perfectly the comedy/insanity/ of liberal woman's view of conservative woman.
They have no rational way to oppose Palin, so they just start grabbing at straws.
They are outraged because she has succeeded without their playbook.

[hellbender]

I was going to note that she has come to roost in the People's Academic Oblast of Keene, NH. Keene St. Univ. has been rated as one of the nation's classic examples of a grade-inflated party school whose grads are unqualified for most jobs.

Mary Ann is nuts. Try this:

I had never imagined how powerful our ovaries could be

Posted: Monday, April 11, 2011 12:15 pm | Updated: 12:10 pm, Mon Apr 11, 2011. By Mary Ann Sorrentino | 0 comments Most Americans never realized that the answer to straightening out the current financial crisis they are slogging through is to muck up the environment and retake control of women’s hard-fought reproductive rights. Of course, we should have known: It makes perfect sense that if the nation simply adopts a policy of forced pregnancy and then weans all the newborns off their mothers’ breasts and into an atmosphere of poisonous air and tainted water all our fiscal woes will just disappear.

Recent photos suggest that she is on her way to approaching the Helen Thomas level of physical ugliness.

[Genoa]

I had a lifelong friend, an evangelical right-winger, chide me for not supporting Palin in 2008. When I suggested Palin actually opposed many of the issues critical to women I had spent my life fighting for, my friend said, “But you have to admit she’s a “pretty girl.”

I CALL BS!! This very unlikely comment certainly would not have been made by this person's "lifelong friend," who I'm sure would have known better.