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The Abortion Asymmetry

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Obviously, I agree with Ann and Matt. In particular, I’m not going to go along with the dominant centrist wisdom that pro-choicers should concede up front that abortion is immoral — because 1)I don’t think it’s true, 2)it makes no sense tactically, and 3)I’m definitely not going to concede any moral high ground to a faction whose position is a moral, political, legal, and ethical shambles.

One response to this argument is that while Roe and legal first-trimester abortion are popular, so are the Hyde Amendment and most of the pointless, arbitrary abortion regulations that fall short of a ban. Which is true — but you’ll note that the argument somehow never cuts the other way. Republicans are rarely if ever urged to abandon their unpopular criminalize-first-trimester-abortions stance. The national GOP platform advocates a constitutional amendment that would make abortion a serious criminal offense in all 50 states — a position that’s about as popular as universal rectal cancer — and yet they’re able to win elections. The Republicans understand that abandoning their unpopular positions won’t “depoliticize” the issue or have much impact on elections, and as in many other cases the GOP has a better understanding of how politics actually works.

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