The irony of the Rice situation grows

In the world of the bizarre, which this week has been the NFL, comes the most bizarre of incidents. The 49ers have suspended radio broadcaster Ted Robinson for two games because of domestic violence comments he made this week.

On Monday, he was discussing the Ray Rice situation. He said that Rice's then fiancé should accept her responsibility in what happened, and that it was "pathetic" to go ahead and marry Rice after he knocked her out with a punch in April at a New Jersey casino.

The 49ers suspended him. Niners president Paraag Marathe issued a statement that said the words were offensive and in no way reflect the views of the San Francisco 49ers organization.

Oh, uh, yes.

This is the same organization that is playing defensive tackle Ray McDonald after he was arrested in early September for -- you guessed it -- domestic violence. They're letting the legal process play out in this instance.

To recap: Announcers they can do without for saying the wrong thing or at best saying something in the wrong way, but defensive tackles, they can wait for due process so they get games out of them.

This is a despicable, heinous thing this domestic violence. Raising one's hand to a woman is without doubt terrible. It is a personal problem that one can't help but be sickened by it.

But I want to put one thought into the mix that will cause some to stop reading and revolt against me. If Janay Rice had an abortion, no one would have say a word. If she decided that having a child was the wrong thing to do and she took that life, no one would say a word. We would not have three days of intensive coverage. We would not have independent investigations.

We wouldn't have a word.

We've reached the stage in evolutionary development, if one could call it that, whereas abortion our children is not even a topic of discussion. I know I'm mixing terrible apples of domestic violence with the terrible apples of abortion, but one is as heinous to me as the other and yet we're having endless discussions of one and I'll be willing to be that NFL players have paid for more abortions than they have had arrests for domestic violence.

One is a life. The other could be.

Both are worth being played out as a discussion point, it seems to me. Isn't one type of violence the same as another?

Of course, if I were a San Fransisco 49ers announcer I would probably be suspended for saying that.