A Woman's Life Versus an Inept Press (Nat Hentoff on Terri Schiavo)

The Village Voice ^ | November 6th, 2003 2:00 PM | Nat Hentoff

[nickcarraway]

Nat Hentoff, one of the clearest thinkers on the left, pens one of the best articles on the Terri Schiavo situation. A must read.

[dirtboy]

The calm, deliberate indignation of Nat Hentoff smacks another right-to-life column out of the park.

[nickcarraway]

Can't argue with that.

[dead]

Another homerun from Hentoff.

God they must hate him at the Voice. Good for him.

[ruoflaw]

Thanks for posting this article!

[Timesink]

God they must hate him at the Voice. Good for him.

They do. He's written about how practically ALL the people that he thought were his friends at the Voice stopped speaking to him as soon as he outed himself as pro-life. It really is all about politics with them.

[nickcarraway]

You are welcome.

[45Auto]

Hentoff seems to be one of the very few leftist voices with a clear understanding of the US Constitution. Yet, I cannot find anything written by him about his position on the 2nd Amendment. I have even sent him e-mails asking him to publish an article on the RKBA. Nothing.

[farmfriend]

bttt

[Question_Assumptions]

Not politics. Death. They want abortion to be legal and will do anything to make and keep it so. Anything. Let viable healthy babies be murdered while they are half-way out of the womb? Sure! Look the other way when a woman accuses a pro-choice president of rape? Sure! Lie to get a right to abortion declared by the Supreme Court? Sure! Destroy the courts and the judicial confirmation process? Sure. Anything. Remember that. Anything. Talk to rabid pro-abortion partisans sometime. They say some really amazing things if you push them hard enough.

[nickcarraway]

Interesting. I haven't seen him say anything one way or another. I don't agree with him on everything, but I like to hear what he says. And he may be the top Jazz writer alive.

[nkycincinnatikid]

bump

[goldstategop]

Nat Hentoff is a pro-life atheist libertarian. This is one of his best articles on the subject of medicalized killing.

[alwaysconservative]

I wonder how much longer it will be before Nat Hentoff joins the likes of Christopher Hitchens, Tammy Bruce, and David Horowitz, and formally leaves the left behind because of the left's intellectual dishonesty and moral bankruptcy? Hentoff is one of the most principled pro-life activists of all time.

[Cicero]

Nobody's perfect. He is still a leftist, not a conservative, he just happens to have a decent respect for human beings. I'll take my friends where I can get them.

What really, really upsets the usual suspects is that Hentoff still is a leftist, and yet he can say this. He's not a convert, not a neocon. He demonstrates that you can be a leftist and still care for human life--as, in fact, most of them dishonestly claim to do.

It's easy for leftists to dismiss a neocon as having sold out. It's hard for them to dismiss somebody like Hentoff. So, in a way, he does more good than if he totally agreed with us.

[goldstategop]

He used to be a liberal. I think he's more of a libertarian now. Hentoff moved cause you can't be a liberal unless you're pro choice and you're anti-RKBA. I wish he'd publish an article on the latter. That would really drive the ACLU nuts.

[Tax-chick]

Nat Hentoff is a pro-life atheist libertarian.

I wonder what would be said about him if he were proposed for the Supreme Court? (Just random musing ...)

[JoeFromSidney]

Hentoff seems to be one of the very few leftist voices with a clear understanding of the US Constitution. Yet, I cannot find anything written by him about his position on the 2nd Amendment.

I spoke to Hentoff about the 2nd Amendment when he was a guest speaker at University of Dayton several years ago. He doesn't support it. I wish he did, he'd be an excellent advocate.

[catonsville]

Hentoff mentions his shunning by some of the Village Voice staff in his books. Especially for his right to life positions.
Gutsy beyond measure, He is, as I have claimed in FR, "the last REAL liberal in America"