Today I read the article, "Why Do Women Give McCain a Zero?" by Robert Greenwald (http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20080610/cm_huffpost/106263_200806101253).
Its first criticism is that McCain received a zero rating from NARAL for all of his "anti-choice" votes that he cast in the House and the Senate.
This attack makes the dangerous assumption that pro-life votes are inherently anti-women. A simple google search on the statistics of women and their abortion views show that Greenwald is drastically off-track.
It turns out that Greenwald isn't the only one who got the story wrong: CBS news did it too back in 2003 in an article called, "Poll: Strong Support for Abortion Rights". The article claims that "just 22% favor a ban on abortion", but fails to mention that 48% of women believe abortion should have stricter limits or completely banned while only 38% believe the status quo should remian. This is a staggering statistic that not only flies in the face of Greenwald's primary argument, but even the CBS article's own title (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/01/22/opinion/polls/main537570.shtml).
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