I don't know who's more misguided - Michaelene Jenkins of the pro-life Life Resource Network or ABCNews for reporting her organization's new "Feminists for Life" campaign as if it were an actual news story.

It's a thinly veiled attempt by a pro-life organization based in San Diego to fool women into joining their cause. It's just a more insidous weapon in the pro-life movement's crusade to make abortion illegal. According to ABCNews.com, the campaign contends that legalized abortion is not only bad for the unborn children, it's been bad for women and for all of society, because it has allowed employers, lawmakers, colleges and even health care providers to treat pregnancy as an easily avoidable condition. Even health care providers know this: pregnancy is an easily avoidable condition - it's called birth control.

So the frontman on this, Michaelene Jenkins, found herself pregnant 18 years ago. She was pressured by her boyfriend and by her employer, who "all but" threatened to fire her if she stayed pregnant. This is the mid-80s we're talking about here - not the 1950s. She should have sued the bastard. The very long article goes on to say that Jenkins imagined that having an abortion would be empowering [- god knows why - ] and that she felt so violated she had to rethink what it meant to be a feminist. Whoever said having an abortion made her a feminist?

I'm outraged that she and her pro-life organization would use the word feminist anywhere. I have a T-shirt (from NOW) that says: "People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that distinguish me from a doormat. Rebecca West, age 20, 1913." Amazing, that was 90 years ago and Rebecca figured it out. Maybe Jenkins should have thought for herself (which is all a feminist really is anyway) and not let other people do her thinking for her 18 years ago. But that would mean she'd have to accept responsibility for her actions. Oh, well.

And I'm completely outraged at ABCNews for giving this "story" legitimate news play. Not one mention of the Life Resource Network's pro-life agenda.