Why has the National Organization of Women (NOW) had no statement on the murder of Benazir Bhutto?

You would expect the self-styled premier feminist organization to at least say SOMETHING about Bhutto. I mean Hillary Clinton referred to her as a "pioneering woman" and she certainly was.

But as James Taranto points out in opinonjournal.com today, there's nothing up on the NOW website  National Organization for Women Search: bhutto

I know the reason - Bhutto was an Islamic, feminist, prolife advocate - anathema to NOW. I emailed opinionjournal today and hopefully other people also did, and they will pick up on it:

LifeNet: Benazir Bhutto was prolife advocate

When Bhutto was the prime minister of Pakistan, she helped lead a delegation to the 1994 Cairo population conference that confronted abortion advocates looking to make abortion an international right.

"I dream ...of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction," she told the United Nations panel at the time.

Bhutto was one of only two women to address the conference.

Instead of telling women in nations where population growth is an issue that they should kill their offspring, Bhutto told world leaders that the best solutions is "tackling infant mortality, by providing villages with electrification, by raising an army of women."

She hoped to "educate our mothers, sisters, daughters, in child welfare and population control, by setting up a bank run by women for women, to help women achieve economic independence, and to have the wherewithal to make independent choices."

Bhutto warned conference participants that "this conference must not be viewed by the teeming masses of the world as a universal social charter seeking to impose adultery, abortion...and other such matters on individuals, societies and religions which have their own social ethos."

One of the leading pro-life women's groups in the United States, Feminists for Life of America, honored Bhutto in the 1998 issue of its publication The American Feminist. The group named Bhutto as one of the first and best "remarkable pro-life women" around the world.

Comments

[Judith Anderson]

Thanks for this reminder, Tom. It is a sad day when ideology trumps compassion. NOW's abortion minions need a 2008 New Year's resolution - a reality check.