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Freddie responds to me and Ross, arguing that so long as Planned Parenthood’s policies have the net effect of reducing the number of abortions (a tremendous assumption, but let’s play along), pro-life “pragmatists” are in no position to complain about them: I don’t think Planned Parenthood is like Hezbollah, building hospitals here, murdering innocent Israelis [...]
Many pro-lifers’ problems with Planned Parenthood go beyond the fact that it’s an organization that performs abortions. This is true for the straightforward reason that many pro-lifers care about things other than abortion, and on some of those things – the acceptability of sex between unmarried teens, say – Planned Parenthood stands straightforwardly in opposition [...]
I found the claim a bit too strange to comment on when Patrick Appel ran with it yesterday, but seeing as it’s become something of a meme I suppose I ought to weigh in. Here’s William Saletan: If you define pro-life as preventing abortions, Planned Parenthood is the most effective pro-life organization in the history [...]
By Mark Responding to Ross’ response to his response to John’s post on abortion last week, Freddie DeBoer writes: I don’t quite understand believing both a) abortion is murder and b) let’s leave it up to the states. Would even the most ardent federalist not support a national ban on murder? We famously (and at [...]
Filed under: abortion, conservatism, government/law, politics
Howdy, y’all Nathan P. Origer at your service Over at Nathancontramundi, I have some thoughts on abortion, primarily, but not wholly, from my Catholic perspective, a post inspired greatly by John’s essay down-blog. It’s certainly not of the same calibre as John’s, but it offers some insight, I hope, into my thinking process and beliefs, [...]
Freddie DeBoer has a pair of posts on the Douthat-Kmiec dustup at Slate (on which see more from Ross, Daniel Larison, and – for a pretty hilarious change of pace – Tucker Carlson) on the GOP and abortion policy, and he jumps in particular on Ross’s admission that the pro-life position that defines the Republican [...]
Filed under: abortion, government/law, morality, politics
Over at C11, Tim Carney gets at what I think is the core of the argument for its importance: … you can hope it “sends a message.” Maybe the GOP power-brokers who are studying the numbers in December and trying to figure out what went wrong will notice a few million votes for the Constitution [...]
So apparently Andrew Sullivan isn’t going to print the note I sent him this morning about Angela and my experience with pre-natal testing during her pregnancy with our son Jack: As the father of a young child, let me fill you in on the way that the average OB-GYN lays on the pressure when it [...]
Filed under: abortion, family, science/tech
I was going to write the whole thing out, but it seems that merely posting a link will do. If such a practice became a cultural expectation, and someone responded to criticisms of this state of affairs by insisting that, well, it’s non-coercive, and there’s no real ground for complaint so long as no one [...]
Filed under: abortion, government/law, morality