Not a good look

The cover of today's Age carries a photo of two female politicans laughing and clinking champagne flutes to celebrate the passage of the bill which will effectively make the abortifacient drug RU-486 available in Australia. That's right, they're drinking champagne to celebrate the release of a drug which only does one thing: it poisons a human foetus in utero. Do I really need to say anything? The Age is curiously ambivalent on this, because it runs the picture, even while acknowledging that it's not really a good look, with a headline so weaselly it almost looks like sarcasm:
After the battle, the winning women drink a toast, decorously

Oh, decorously. Well, that's okay then. I mean, it's not like they're choofing magnums of champagne and spraying them over the Press Gallery, Grand Prix-style.

The article continues (print version only):
"But even in the historic moment, they were nervous about appearances: too much joy on the touchy topic of abortion could be misconstrued."

Gee, d'ya think?