Pro-Life Blogger Fired from New York Post

I may be slightly behind the times, but wanted to point out today's story about Dawn Eden being fired by the New York Post. Dawn Eden, known by me for her blog The Dawn Patrol, posted about the article here.

Basically, Dawn Eden was a copy-editor for the times. When a story that was factually incorrect came across her desk, she corrected it:

According to Ms. Eden, she was repelled by what she interpreted as a "cavalier" attitude about the embryos in Ms. Edelman’s story: "Treating them as a manufactured commodity that don’t have significance as human life," Ms. Eden said. (Ms. Edelman declined to comment when reached by The Observer.)

"I got choked up," Ms. Eden said. "How are people going to ever understand the complex issues involved here, if the story they’re reading reduces it to ‘Oh, isn’t this nice? We can just make lots of embryos and not worry about whether they live or die.’"

Ms. Eden read a line in the draft of the story: "Experts have ethical qualms about this ‘Russian roulette’ path to parenthood." She saw her opportunity: She added a phrase: " … which, when in-vitro fertilization is involved, routinely results in the destruction of embryos." And where Ms. Edelman had written that one woman had three embryos implanted "and two took," Ms. Eden changed that to read: "One died. Two took."

Ms. Eden said she thought she was performing a service for the reader, since she believed that the Post had been "notoriously oblivious" to the nuances involving embryonic life.

The article also includes background information about Dawn Eden, which is fascinating, particularly her religious past and how she learned about Christianity (not many can say a rock band started them down the path).

Take a minute and read it. Our culture is breeding a new world where faithful Christians aren't accepted or wanted. It's a sickness that even The Post isn't as interested in Truth as they are in spin.

God bless,
Jay

PS - Hat tip to Relapsed Catholic for the article.