Meanwhile, back at Columbia...

Antichoice Fanatics Invade Ivy League!
The Columbia Spectator reports that the Ivy League campus in upper Manhattan is involuntarily playing host to a group called Pro-Women/Pro-Life. As if that isn't bad enough, the antichoice fanatics seem to have taken over the Columbia Spectator itself. Check out this quote from Mary Kate Johnson, one of the group's founders:

"What that program shows is exactly what is at the heart of the matter," Johnson said. "The [fetus'] heart beats, the fingers move, and it has its own unique DNA, all before the mother is considered too far along to seek an abortion. It is a live human being."

Now granted, the Spectator's editors changed whatever Johnson actually said to the proper term, "fetus." But anyone would have done that. Here is how the quote should have read in order to be respectful to women:

"What that program shows is exactly what is at the heart of the matter," Johnson said. "The [fetus'] heart beats, the fingers move, and it has its own unique DNA, all before the [host] is considered too far along to seek an abortion. It is a [clump of cells]."

Is this a mere oversight, or do the Spectator's editors really mean to take Columbia back to the dark old days of coat alleys and back hangers?
(Thanks to Best of the Web Today for the heads up.)