‘Twas a matter of only a week or two ago when we were entreated with new polling data that Americans considered themselves “Pro-Life” moreso than “Pro-Choice”.\u00c2\u00a0 This is\u00c2\u00a0one of those matters that has so much static noise in it that there is not too much to say about it.<\/p>\n
So George Tiller is Assassinated.\u00c2\u00a0 And the nation affirms itself as, indeed, Pro-Life.\u00c2\u00a0 We’re all against that Murder.\u00c2\u00a0 Except, I suppose, we’re really only a mouse-quick away from finding people who aren’t.\u00c2\u00a0 And we’re only a Randal Terry press conference from finding people who aren’t particularly, (the “aren’t” is qualified with the “particularly”).<\/p>\n
Go back further, a couple summers ago.\u00c2\u00a0 The movie Juno inspires some anti-abortion activists, evangelical Jim Wallis, to pull for the “Juno Option”, based on the scenario in the good not great movie.\u00c2\u00a0 Part of the “Common Cause ” we all kind of sort of agree with, unless we don’t, and which the shooter quite clearly doesn’t.\u00c2\u00a0 It is cited as a reason to back off Bristol Palin’s pregnancy won’t detract, and probably help, with Evangelical voters to the McCain \/ Palin ticket — Choose Life, and what, are you rooting for her to grab an Abortion?<\/p>\n
Come November of 2008, the good people of Arkansas voted to ban the\u00c2\u00a0unmarried from adopting<\/a>, by way of making sure homosexuals don’t adopt.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s worth noting that this was a vote against the, quote-in-quote”Juno Option”, wherein the pregnant teenager ends with giving her child up to the now divorced woman (always wanted a child, as against the man who had a mid-life crisis and didn’t much want to go in for parenting).\u00c2\u00a0 And so the complications of real life scenario for a movie,\u00c2\u00a0slide right past the good intentions of your Jim Wallises<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0— who, granted, would not take part in supporting such a measure, and would settle for making sure the Democratic Party Platform plank on Abortion stresses the viability of Adopting and what a shame it is Abortion.<\/p>\n I have long grown weary of this semi-rhetorical question<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0to assess logic — a question which I’ve seen posed in ways unlike “Damon Linker” in a way that suggests a certain\u00c2\u00a0level of respect for the extremists as against the wussy “pro-life” encampment who “apparently don’t have the courage of their convciction”.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve never been quite sure where this rhetorical question is supposed to lead — to settle internal inconsistencies one way or the other, and am slightly chagrined that the NR blog post gets favorable links while this Will Saletin slate article is deplored a tad<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0— though lays as bare as that other one the “Don’t quite mean it” for\u00c2\u00a0the\u00c2\u00a0boldness of\u00c2\u00a0“is murder”, or if so, um, “War is not the Answer<\/em>“.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ‘Twas a matter of only a week or two ago when we were entreated with new polling data that Americans considered themselves “Pro-Life” moreso than “Pro-Choice”.\u00c2\u00a0 This is\u00c2\u00a0one of those matters that has so much static noise in it that there is not too much to say about it. So George Tiller is Assassinated.\u00c2\u00a0 And […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4068,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4067\/revisions\/4068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}