Necessary Roughness

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Thu Sep 30 2004 12:12:11 ET

On Oprah’s Wednesday ‘voting party’ show featuring important celebrities like P. Diddy (Vote or Die!), Drew Barrymore and Christina Aguilera, svelte suffragette Cameron Diaz took to shock tactics to get the female vote out.

After a discussion with Oprah on lynching and the vote, Diaz spoke of the dire consequences for women if they sit out this election:

Ms. DIAZ: We have a voice now, and we’re not using it, and women have so much to lose. I mean, we could lose the right to our bodies. We could lo–if you think that rape should be legal, then don’t vote. But if you think that you have a right to your body, and you have a right to say what happens to you and fight off that danger of losing that, then you should vote, and those are the…

WINFREY: It’s your voice.

Ms. DIAZ: It’s your voice. It’s your voice, that’s your right.

Where do I start? Does anyone believe that rape should be legalized? Let’s say some candidate does favor that. How does not voting help advance that person’s agenda? If you decide not to vote, you cede your ability to influence over to other people, like me, and I don’t plan on voting for anybody who favors the legalization of rape.

You and I can figure this out. This “right to our bodies” is just code words for the termination of life in the womb. Even those who are Pro-Choice should be saddened by this amoral (I refuse to call it moral) equivocation by programmed Hollywood types. She makes this blanket statement that statutory protection of a developing child (she makes no attempt to distinguish whether she would kill a 39-week-old) is equivalent to rape.

More intellectual dishonesty is shoveled onto us by implying that the only reason a woman should vote is to protect Roe vs. Wade. This would be similar to saying that the only reason a man should vote would be to protect pornography. It is not the role of the law to protect you from the consequences of your own actions (I leave aside those who were left pregnant by rape, that is an issue that requires a lot of prayer, sympathy, and care, but I suspect this is not the majority of those seeking abortion).

“It’s your voice,” says the big O. Yet her choice to elevate the voice of this amoral crackpot to the national spotlight should leave her wide open to her own consequences. I don’t think Dr. Phil would screw this one up that badly. Ms. Diaz should have been challenged on the spot, and then Ms. Winfrey would at least avoid being exposed as a leftist shill.

Update: Michelle Malkin comments: Such hyperventilating feminist paranoia might have been a tad more credible coming from someone other than the ex-girlfriend of the smarmy dope who ripped off Janet Jackson’s breast covering while singing (or whatever) “Gonna have you naked by the end of this song.”