This is some crazy shit. Garance Franke-Ruta at the American Prospect has taken an in-depth look at The New York Times’ Op-Ed page and its history covering abortion issues--it ain’t good.

Franke-Ruta found that in the last two years (in which we’ve seen some serious reproductive rights rollbacks) that “not one op-ed discussing abortion on the op-ed page of the most powerful liberal paper in the nation was written by a reproductive-rights advocate, a pro-choice service-provider, or a representative of a women’s group”

Wait, it gets worse--83 percent of the op-ed pieces discussing abortion were written by men and more op-eds on abortion were written by pro-life men than by women of either persuasion on choice. Feeling a little ill yet?

Indeed, what’s most striking about today’s op-ed page is the absence of women of any sort writing on the subject of abortion. Of the 124 mentions of abortion on the page over the two-year period, only 21 of those instances were female authored. In total, there were 67 authors who wrote about abortion for the Times -– only seven of which were female. (Many authors wrote multiple columns mentioning the topic.) That’s seven women over two years, compared with 60 men.

Read the whole piece, seriously. It’s amazingly comprehensive and pretty much kills the NY Times’ likely defense that there aren’t enough women in positions of power to warrant writing op-eds. (It’s not our fault! We couldn’t find anyone!)

Just unbelievable.