Posted by
PatriciaK on Friday, February 06, 2009 4:29:44 PM
Ah, the hypocrisy of Marie Claire magazine.
The latest issue has an article titled "Freaky Trend: Gender Selection Comes Stateside" that condemns the Far and Middle East trend of aborting a child simply because the sex of the child is not a desireable one (and, because this is a woman's magazine, touting Woman Power!, the undesireable sex, is, of course, female).
Wow! Pretty incredible for a pro-abortion magazine to feign shock at another country's abortion policies. As if our reasons for a mother killing her child is somehow justifiable and the other country's reasons are not.
In a May 2008 issue of Marie Claire ("Please Set Me Free"), human zoos (women in holding pens wearing those National Geographic-style, neck-stretching rings) in Thailand are another human tragedy that really just strikes at the heart of the fashion magazine. And here is where Marie Claire again proves its, well, lack of logic: the magazine-turned-human-rights-advocate vigorously promotes a mother killing her child but is then surprised when it sees others treat their fellow human beings without respect and dignity? So we can kill human beings in one case, but all other times we must play nice? A mother purposefully telling a doctor to kill her child is just as sick, if not sicker, than a human zoo.
Oh, Marie Claire. You're much better off telling women what pants to wear to the summer barbeque than you are at stirring up their outrage at others' "inhumane" behavior while giving them the blazing green light to terminate the human being in their wombs.