[Industrialblog,
October 20, 2005]
Richard Cohen gets it
Here.
Cohen's analysis is obvious. But it's nice to see even liberals starting to get it: That extending rights to the unborn is a quintessential liberal issue.
One reason I deride the Democrats as the party of slavery, secession and segregation is their indefensible support of Roe and abortion. Because they've lost the argument, Democrats must retreat into deceptive euphemisms ("choice" and "reproductive rights") to justify emotionally what they can't otherwise justify.
BTW, my position is similar to Cohen's: Roe must go, then allow individual states to regulate abortion. A federal solution is the best answer to value judgments such as this one.
Whatever the case, the very basis of the Roe v. Wade decision -- the one that grounds abortion rights in the Constitution -- strikes many people now as faintly ridiculous. Whatever abortion may be, it cannot simply be a matter of privacy.
Cohen's analysis is obvious. But it's nice to see even liberals starting to get it: That extending rights to the unborn is a quintessential liberal issue.
One reason I deride the Democrats as the party of slavery, secession and segregation is their indefensible support of Roe and abortion. Because they've lost the argument, Democrats must retreat into deceptive euphemisms ("choice" and "reproductive rights") to justify emotionally what they can't otherwise justify.
BTW, my position is similar to Cohen's: Roe must go, then allow individual states to regulate abortion. A federal solution is the best answer to value judgments such as this one.