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Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Women's Voices on Abortion Absent from New York Times
This news is from Salon.com. Staff at the American Prospect surveyed "the gender of the authors of Times Op-Ed pieces that dealt with abortion over the past two years -- including staff columnists -- and found that a shocking 90 percent were male. They wrote 83 percent of the articles that even mentioned abortion. And get this -- more Op-Eds on the subject were by pro-life men than by women of any persuasion." The Prospect reporter, Garance Franke-Ruta, suggests it reflects an editorial stance by Op-Ed editors. Of 124 articles that mentioned the subject, only 21 were written by women.
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