Pro-Choice, Pro-Terrorist?

Karen Hughes' Spin Turns Into Tailspin

When she was the full-time communications director for the White House, Hughes was regarded as the supreme spinner. Reporters actually got dizzy watching her pirouette.

But now the spin is looking more like a tailspin. On a day when nearly a million women and men filled the Mall in Washington for the March for Women's Lives, she drew a comparison between being pro-life and anti-terrorist or, conversely, pro-choice and pro-terrorist.

For many of us, the most powerful lessons of Sept. 11 were quite the opposite of the ones Falwell or Hughes utter. They were lessons about cultures that breed terrorism and oppress women.