Ktulu_03's Journal: NOW has it all wrong...

The Peterson case is a very gut-wrenching and horrible story, and I hope that whoever committed this murder is brought to justice. However, some groups are already trying to take advantage of this case.

NOW has used the indictments as a political issue. We all know that present-day feminism is mostly about abortion. Feminism and NOW is an industry, and their issues will never go away, when one issue gets solved, they will find another one.

It wasn't more than 48 hours before the first quote from NOW was on Drudge's website. Instead of actually using this horrible murder as a way of encouraging women to learn self-defence so that they can protect themselves from an violent husband/criminal/low-life, they claim the indictments are an attack on the pro-choice crowd and laws. A spokesperson from now said "If this is murder, well, then any time a late-term fetus is aborted, they could call it murder," Morris County NOW President Mavra Stark said on Saturday. Well, at least they have one point right, abortion is murder. Not by law, of course, but morally as believed by at least half of the US population.

NOW could have used this case in a positive light, and could have tried to become more of a mainstream group that more women would be interested in listening too. But they no more than a left-wing extremist group, and should not be regarded as group that represents the thoughts of everyday women.