'These disgruntled women—whether they plan to vote for John McCain, sit out the election, or simply gobble up airtime—are tacitly working toward electing McCain; a candidate who claimed last week at a presidential forum at Saddleback Church that life begins "at the moment of conception" and who voted against legislation ensuring equal pay for women.'
--Dahlia Lithwick
I've mentioned this hundreds of times, and will probably have to mention it hundreds of more times (at least as long as Lithwick, Anna Quindlen, and their ilk continue to write for a living), but:
1. One's opinion about socialist economic polices NEED NOT flow from some bizarre set of gender animus.
2. Ditto one's opinion about prenatal biology. Where you think life actually does begin is... not even a judgment call so much as a wild guess. Where you think it would be CONVENIENT TO STIPULATE that life began may have all sorts of gender-political undertones, but BOTH the death-of-a-person argument AND the bodily-autonomy argument address the world as it is rather than as we might wish it to be.
(Yes, Chad, this was good old XX blog.)
Posted by Matt Bruce at August 22, 2008 10:03 PM