Rosie O'Donnell has confounded me. She has taken a pro-life position, and it has ticked me off.

On May 1, the radical liberal (thinks 9-11 was an inside job) posted this Haiku crockapoo on her blog following the announcement by her conservative sparring partner on "The View," Elizabeth Hasselbeck, that she was pregnant:

on the view
u have seen my last hasselbeck spat
2 day was it
no more - its done

there is a new life
there - inside
and in the end -
what else matters

Revering the miracle of pregnancy is great. Showing consideration, like giving a pregnant mother a seat on the bus, is also great.

But patronizing her, no.

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I cannot imagine anyone else in the public eye linguistically patting a pregnant mother on the tummy as O'Donnell did, saying, in so many words, "I have decided to no longer debate issues of the day with you for fear you might faint from overexcitement."

I could endure some of that, and having been pregnant over two years of my life, I have.

But not from O'Donnell. She's repulsively hypocritical on this issue, just as eager to toss a "new life" to human wolves if it suits her politically or personally.

Less than two weeks prior on "The View," O'Donnell defended the most disgusting procedure of them all (to date), partial-birth abortion, committed on late-term babies who feel the excruciating pain of every surgical instrument by which they are being stabbed and dismembered.

How I wish Elizabeth had announced her pregnancy before this exchange:

O'DONNELL: Five to four was the Supreme Court vote. Now it's shocking to me. This is the first time since 1973. Everyone agrees partial-birth abortion is horrific. It's horrific for anyone who has to decide it. One-point-three million abortions done in America every year, 2,000 partial-birth abortions. What is that? Zero [pause] ,1 percent, 0.1. This is just a way–

HASSELBECK: That represents 2,000 lives.

O'DONNELL: Right, well, that represents 2,000 women who are at risk and this was their only option. … [N]o one electively chooses to have this kind of abortion … and mostly the baby is severely ill or the mother's life is at risk. Nobody voluntarily goes in and says, "Please give me a partial-birth abortion because I would like to physically injure –" It is a grotesque procedure.

HASSELBECK: It is grotesque. They remove the child and crush the skull.

O'DONNELL: But usually the woman's life is at risk, Elisabeth.

HASSEBECK: There's an exemption here. If the woman's life is at risk, it wouldn't even be – it's a moot issue.

O'DONNELL: Correct, but why is it brought up? Because it's a way to get in to start eroding Roe v. Wade. … It's as if the women's movement never happened. … It is frightening to me. … [W]e are half the population and there was a women's movement and, you know, feminism really was the reason that this bill, women's reproductive rights, ever came into the forefront. … The women's movement. Now, ladies, we need to get together because we are on the precipice going backwards not forwards. …

HASSELBECK: … I just don't believe that partial-birth abortion should be legal. … If the woman's life is not at threat …

O'DONNELL: But Elisabeth, the baby is usually either deformed or dead … not a hair lip, not a limb missing, severely something –

HASSELBECK: It would … not make me want to abort that child. I believe that child –

O'DONNELL: I know, but guess what? That's your choice … and every woman deserves that choice. …

O'Donnell began by falsely asserting the pba ban would see women killed. That refuted, she admitted she was afraid banning pba was a ruse to begin banning abortion. She then falsely claimed the ban would disallow likewise removal of children who had died naturally prior to the start of the procedure. She implied abortion is the cornerstone of feminism, which is also false.

Now compare O'Donnell's extreme pro-abortion position to her ode. She is trying to say "what else matters" but "new life" while arguing what else matters than the right to heinously kill new life.

As for Hasselbeck, O'Donnell invoked sexism for one of two reasons. Either, as is typical of pro-aborts, she overreacted to a wanted pregnancy to demonstrate she was really pro-"choice," or she conveniently used it to stop arguing about Iraq because she knew she sounded loony.

Either way, O'Donnell used preborn children as pawns for personal gain, which was her only consistent thought.

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