Given that many people have already critiqued the latest Douthat nonsense on abortion (see also here), for some variety I thought I’d address similar arguments made recently by Megan McArdle. From her response to Hilzoy: My argument is that abortion, like slavery, is becoming in this country an issue upon which people have no reasonable […]
Tag: reproductive freedom
Sorry, busy day with parental visit and various other tasks that need doing, but while I might get to this later see Roy, Barbara, Kathleen Reeves, K-Drum, and Athenae. I do have to address this: R
Horrible, horrible news, as the courageous Kansas abortion provider George Tiller was shot. Kansas, as I’m sure some of you know, was at the center of the epidemic of anti-choice terrorism, with
I had a request in comments to discuss concerns some liberal critics have had about Sotomayor’s record on abortion (which the administration has tried to address.) Fortunately, Filipovic already has the comprehensive version, so just a couple additional points/short elaborations: Sotomayor’s vote in the gag rule case isn’t a major concern for the same reason […]
A powerful reminder. Getting to a political universe in which it’s politically viable to repeal it is a crucial task for advocates of reproductive freedom; I wish had some idea about how this ch
From John Sides. To recapitulate, there’s no reason to believe that there’s been a significant change in public opinion, and legal-with-marginal-restrictions — the Casey compromise &
I have some thoughts about the widely trumpeted but not terribly meaningful new surveys here. (Short version: talk to me if this persists for at least a year and shows up in surveys with better questions.) See also Sarah Posner on why it’s a bad idea to cede moral ground to advocates of abortion criminalization, […]
Shorter Verbatim Ross Douthat: “The pro-life movement is arguably more comfortable with the language of rights and liberties than its opponents. Abortion foes are defending a right to life groun
Adam Liptak had a couple of articles this weekend discussing arguments made by Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The first refers to Ginsburg’s oft-cited (at least by opponents and centrist critics of Roe) c
Amanda discusses Saletan’s latest. The column gives us the two sides of Saletan. First, we get the pro-choicer originating bog-standard ideas: This may sound strange, but I don’t consider myself a real abortion foe. I have friends and sparring partners who think abortions should be illegal or at least heavily restricted. To me, that’s the […]
Steve, with respect to a bunch of social reactionaries being shocked, shocked that Obama would follow through on his explicit campaign promises regarding the abortion gag rule and stem cell research,
When your moral principles dictate that state coercion be used to force a 9-year old girl to seriously risk her life by giving birth to her rapist’s child, you really need to get new moral princ