The Pro-Choice Position Is Principled
Black and Cole make a point that can’t be made often enough: the pro-choice position is a principled moral position, reflecting important moral values. Women’s equality and freedom are real moral values. And it cuts the other way too — people who want to criminalize abortion are generally simply assumed to be acting based on High Moral Principles, no matter that the most common bundle of views advanced by actually existing American opponents of safe, legal abortion access have a strong tendency to be a complete shambles.
Come on, Scott, you know as well as anyone that you are only morally principled in America if you are a rightwing religious fanatic (does not apply to Muslims).
Snark aside, this is something which constantly infuriates me. Denying anyone any form of routine, legal medical care based on gender, race, or ability to pay is a moral abomination to me and to the Rabbi Yeshua (Matthew 25:34-46).
Additionally, entrenching monied interests is not a principled position, and any criticism from that angle fails to take into account that this is historic once-in-a-lifetime legislation that
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It appears that not only is abortion the moral choice, but it will also massage away your lower back and hip pain. and provide you with new bamboo flooring.
I think it’s important to point out that it’s not just about women’s equality and freedom (as important as those are), but also about women’s *lives.* Women DIE when abortion is criminalized. I say this not to diminish the significance of equality, but for a lot of people (including a lot of women), the connection is not self-evident.
The problem with the “principled” business is that for a long time calling someone “principled” was shorthand for saying, “this person holds some dumb beliefs that everyone else realizes are ridiculous, but he appears to hold them honestly.” Calling someone principled was effectively an insult. That changed at some point.
The “principled” stance that is the most abhorrent to me is abortion should not be allowed except in case of rape or incest.
Come on, can your true feelings be any more apparent? This is not about saving a life. This about punishing a woman for her actions.
[...] Of course, we had our trolls yesterday trying to claim equivalency between anti-democratic sentiments from the right and a few blowhards on the left. But this sort of thing demonstrates the difference—sitting congressmen talking up secession and praising a giant crowd for its violent impulses. Indeed, I would say demands that we see an equivalence are another example of how conservatives simply believe they get to have more and get away with more because of their cultural identification as right wingers. In order for the left to complain about politicians calling for violence and secession, we have to make sure there isn’t a single left-leaning person who has fantasized about violence. In order to be alarmed about crowds of people who brag about being gun nuts and who practically beg for someone to declare an official revolution so they can start shooting up perceived enemies, we have to make sure the left has not a single loner who has violent fantasies. They get more leeway, according to them, because they’re better than us. The evidence for this has so far not been produced. The wingnuts who bug me on Twitter use abortion as a fallback position for their moral and cultural superiority, but I reject the idea that respect for women’s liberation and human sexuality makes a person immoral. I actually think it’s the morally upright position. [...]