NYT Discovers Abortion Illegal, Ignores US Complicity
The New York Times breathlessly reports that abortion is once again illegal in North Dakota, as if this is a sudden, shocking development. (Spoiler: it’s not, it's the culmination of decades of strategic political maneuvering and judicial appointments.) What the Times fails to connect is the consistent pattern: dismantling basic human rights at home while simultaneously funding their destruction
abroad, often with the same political players and the same lack of outrage. While North Dakotans lose bodily autonomy, the US funnelled an estimated $3.8 billion in military aid to Israel in 2023 alone, contributing to the killing of over 37,000 Palestinians—a staggering number of them women and children. (Source: USAID, OCHA). The very politicians who decry 'wokeness' and 'foreign entanglement'
find common ground on denying women healthcare and endorsing mass casualty events overseas. The silence on US culpability in Gaza is deafening compared to the 'concern' over North Dakota. One might wonder, how many civilian casualties in Gaza equal one North Dakota ballot box?