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National Review Meltdown Watch
Obsidian Wings — ... by hilzoy The National Review front page link to this article asks: "Is there a connection between the criticisms of vice-presidential hopeful Sarah Palin and repressed post-abortion grief?" Let me think long and hard about this one: No. This has been another edition of 'Simple Answers To Stupid Questions' (TM Atrios). The slightly more complicated answer: given all the obvious reasons to criticize Sarah Palin, why on earth would anyone feel the need to reach for something as exotic and far-fetched as repressed ...

National Review Meltdown Watch
Political Animal — National Review Meltdown Watch The National Review front page link to this article asks: "Is there a connection between the criticisms of vice-presidential hopeful Sarah Palin and repressed post-abortion grief?" Let me think long and hard about this one: No. This has been another edition of 'Simple Answers To Stupid Questions' (TM Atrios). The slightly more complicated answer: given all the obvious reasons to criticize Sarah Palin, why on earth would anyone feel the need to reach for something as exotic and far-fetched as repressed post-abortion grief? It's like asking: Why ...

Ladies, They're Onto Us
Shakesville — Geniuses at the National Review Online have figured out what's behind women's criticisms of Sarah Palin: "the collective grief, shame, and guilt from personal involvement in the abortion of an unborn child." ...

The Source Of Palin Hate
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Just when I thought that NR couldn't sink any lower, they print this: Seeing the Palin family, in a very visible public forum, with an uncompromising and public pro life philosophy arouses deeply repressed feelings in post abortive parents, as well as media members, counselors, health care professionals, politicians and others who promote abortion rights, especially the abortion of children with challenges such as Down Syndrome. These powerful repressed feelings of grief, guilt and shame can be deflected from the source of the wound (i.e., abortion) and ...

No Post-Abortion Guilt Here
Comments from Left Field — ... response is often one of the following: Avoidance. Reactive defensiveness, hyper sensitivity, and angry attacks to compensate for the emotional vulnerability this issue surfaces. Some will recognize in their troubled souls the need to reach out for healing and the hope of reconciliation and peace. Yes, and others will recognize bullshit crapola when they see it: The National Review front page link to this article asks: “Is there a connection between the criticisms of ...

Fruit flies, post-abortion syndrome, and other adventures in wingnut hostility to science
pandagon.net - we are the public option — ... because the South Carolina Democratic party chair said Sarah Palin was picked because she didn’t have an abortion?  In that time, the argument has turned to, “Vote McCain/Palin.  Because she didn’t have an abortion, unlike you crazy sluts.” Seriously, the National Review published an article claiming that the nation has turned on Sarah Palin not because she’s a paranoid right wing nut who hates the majority of us because we’re not ...

National Review: Women who don't support Palin are just upset about their abortions
Feministing — Now this is rich. Kevin Burke, a proponent of the invented "post abortion syndrome," writes that the criticism of Sarah Palin "may have a relationship to the collective grief, shame, and guilt from personal involvement in the abortion of an unborn child." Here I thought voters made decisions based on the issues that matter to them - little did I know that women across the country who don't support Palin are simply depressed about all of those abortions we've been having! Burke gets even classier when he brings Palin's pregnant teen daughter ...

Sexism On The Factor? Quelle Surprise!
News Hounds — ... Comment: Words fail me – actually two words, directed to Miller come to mind. Miller’s commentary was as offensive as that of National Review's Kevin Burke who claimed that liberal women hated Palin because they felt guilty about their abortions and because Palin chose to give birth to a Down’s baby – views shared by Fox’s ...