Time’s “Milestones” page remember leftists without any label harsher than “civil rights agitator,” while the conservative is still a “Neanderthal.”

DIED. MOLLY YARD, 93, Shanghai-born civil rights agitator best known for her in-your-face leadership of the National Organization for Women, which she took over in 1987 at age 75, dramatically upping its membership, budget and visibility; in Pittsburgh, Pa. Fond of saying she was born a feminist–Chinese friends brought her missionary parents a bowl to soothe their “tragedy” of having another girl–Yard was known for cowing politicians, as she did famously in 1987 with her vocal opposition to Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork, whom she called a Neanderthal.

Time doesn’t see fit to notice what Steve Moore noticed for National Review in 1999, where the feminist legend of Yard’s modest, supposedly shamefully female Shanghai origins met the road of girl-aborting reality:

Consider the one-child policy in China. Some 10 million to 20 million Chinese girls are demographically “missing” today because of “sex-selective abortion of female fetuses, female infant mortality (through infanticide or abandonment), and selective neglect of girls ages 1 to 4,” according to a 1996 U.S. Census Bureau report.
Last year, Congress heard testimony from Gao Xiao Duan, a former Chinese administrator of the one-couple, one-child policy. Gao testified that if a woman in rural China is discovered to be pregnant without a state-issued “birth-allowed certificate,” she typically must undergo an abortion-no matter how many months pregnant she is…

The pro-choice movement is notably silent about this invasion of women’s “reproductive rights.” In 1989, Molly Yard, of the National Organization for Women, actually praised China’s one-child program as “among the most intelligent in the world.”