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To: LindyBill who wrote (56497)	7/27/2004 1:46:26 PM
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I had wondered what the "Mom" was like. SELECTIVE DISCLOSURE POLICY By Michelle Malkin · July 27, 2004 12:11 PM Remember that awful New York Times piece about abortion activist Amy Richards' decision to "eliminate" two of her unborn children through "selective reduction?" Well, the New York Sun (registration required) got on the case and questioned the paper's failure to disclose Richards' line of work. Jacob Gershman reports: Ooops. Editors at the New York Times Magazine say they are going to publish a note to readers saying they were unaware that a woman featured in a firsthand account of her decision to abort two of her triplet fetuses was a prominent crusader for abortion rights. "The editors of our magazine did not know about [Amy] Richards's activist background," a Times spokeswoman, Catherine Mathis, told The New York Sun by e-mail after the Sun had inquired about the piece. "We plan to run an editors' note." Ms. Richards's 871-word account of her abortions ran on July 18 in the magazine's "Lives" back-cover column under the headline "When One Is Enough." More: In this case, Ms. Richards told her story to Amy Barrett, a frequent contributor to the magazine. The piece contains no author identification on the bottom of the page, as the "Lives" columns sometimes do. "I didn't keep my biography a secret from them," Ms. Richards, 34, told the Sun. "You just have to go on the Internet and do a search. I did nothing to block my identity." A Google search on Amy Richards pulls up several short biographies of her. One onFeminist.com, for which she writes an advice column, describes how Ms. Richards in 1992 founded the Third Wave, a feminist organization that is geared toward younger women and funds abortions, and has co-authored two books on feminism, one of them titled "Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future." A 1992 graduate of Barnard College, Ms. Richards also is a paid consultant to Gloria Steinem and serves on Planned Parenthood of New York's Council of Advocates. Ms. Richards said her background as a feminist activist wasn't relevant to the piece. "I personally approached the story as a journalist," she said. "It's a piece of news information" about the selective reduction procedure. As I told Gershman, I found it incredibly misleading that the Times presented Richards as an average, common mother who had no other agenda but to pour her soul out to the public. Kudos to the Sun for shedding light on the Yes, We're Liberal! paper's selective disclosure policy. michellemalkin.com