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Two Women, Two Choices Highlight a Pro-Choice Double Standard?

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The pro-life community took several hits this week in the form of Supreme Court rulings, a federal court ruling, and the comments of a well-known comedienne.

The Supreme Court handed down a devastating blow to pro-life activists Monday by blocking a Texas law activists believe could have saved the lives of countless unborn children and their mothers.

The court ruled 5-3 against the Texas pro-life law that required physicians who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals. The law also required clinics to meet hospital-like safety standards for outpatient surgery.

In addition, the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from Washington state pharmacists. The pharmacists refused to dispense Plan B or other emergency contraceptives based on religious objections.

Thirdly, a federal judge halted an Indiana law that would have banned abortions based on an unborn baby's genetic abnormalities. The judge said the state does not have the right to limit a woman's reasons for ending a pregnancy.

Then, in an article in Playboy, well-known comedienne Chelsea Handler said in reference to an abortion that she had, "I was relieved in every possible way." Handler explained that she had two abortions in one year and that she's "grateful" and doesn't "look back."

Her comments and the response to that article prompted blogger Matt Walsh to write recently that "the left was enamored with Handler's tale of fetal destruction and bloodshed."

"They called it 'incredibly honest' and 'brave' and 'bold'  and 'optimistic,'" he wrote. "Her words were a 'truth bomb,' they squealed."

Walsh believes the Left's support of Handler presents a double standard, and he cites the case involving Emile Weaver, a former college student, whom a judge sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing her newborn daughter.

After her baby was born, Weaver placed her child in a trash bag and left her outside. She then texted the girl's father, "No more baby," and "Taken care of."

In his blog, Walsh wonders why liberals are not rallying to Weaver's defense.

"What are the actual moral and scientific differences between Weaver's choice, which our culture considers criminal, and Handler's choice, which our culture celebrates as empowering and liberating?" Walsh asked. "The answer, of course, is clear: There is no real difference."

"A couple of minutes is all that separates abortion from infanticide," he continued. "If Weaver had simply been in a different place and gotten there a little earlier and used a different method to "take care of" her problem, she would be getting high-fives on Twitter rather than pat-downs at the big house."

"If that bathroom had been a clinic, if that trash bag had been a medical waste container, if the baby had been poisoned instead of suffocated, Weaver would be writing a self-congratulatory essay for a feminist website rather than filing a motion with the court of appeals," Walsh said.

"If she'd just gotten around to carrying out her murderous plot one minute earlier, she'd be counted as another courageous feminist warrior, not as another inmate on cell block B," he continued.

"If a woman can be judge, jury and executioner of her unborn progeny, why should she lose that authority upon delivery?" Walsh asked. "Why should her godlike powers over life and death end at her vagina? Why are feminists limiting themselves in this way?"

"Liberals should be outraged by Weaver's conviction and sentence," he continued. "Liberal politicians ought to be championing her cause. Hillary Clinton ought to be coming ferociously to Weaver's defense, explaining how her oppression is an oppression of all women everywhere."

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Mark Martin currently serves as a reporter and anchor at CBN News, reporting on all kinds of issues, from military matters to alternative fuels. Mark has reported internationally in the Middle East. He traveled to Bahrain and covered stories on the aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Mark also anchors CBN News Midday on the CBN Newschannel and fills in on the anchor desk for CBN News' Newswatch and The 700 Club. Prior to CBN News, Mark worked at KFSM-TV, the CBS affiliate in Fort Smith, Arkansas. There he served as a weekend morning producer, before being promoted to general