re: #243 Ubiq

Well said.

One of the things that I thought Bill Clinton handled extremely well when he was president was abortion, when he managed to form a general consensus that abortion should be ‘safe, legal and rare’. Polling on abortion pretty much maps directly to that thinking - people think that abortion is a tragedy every time that it happens, but that it should be an option that’s available.

Ironically, we could probably cut abortion in about half tomorrow if that was really the goal of the GOP, because we know that unconditional distribution of contraception reduces abortion rates by about that much (teen pregnancy too!) But we’ll never get there because women having sex are eeeeevilllll temptresses that deserve to be punished for their transgressions.

A train of thought that shows that theocrats, both here and the Middle East, are not as ideologically opposed as they claim.