Serendipitously enough, the new Vanity Fair has a piece by Christopher Hitchens on abortion. (Alas, VF doesn’t seem to want to post all its content for free on the web. Honestly, what kind of a business model is that?) Although no fan of the Democrats himself, the eminent Hitch’s conclusion – pro-choice (pro-death? anti-life? I can’t decide which I prefer) with a pained expression at the ontological fact of awful things like accidental pregnancy – is one that I consider much, much more reasonable. (And Bret, presumably, doesn’t, but there you go.)
And the phrase “the unfettered killing of young humans” is a bit of an eyeball-roller: the rhetorical equivalent of the NYT’s last “The War on Women” headline.
Another fun aspect of the whole sorry mess is that here we have the “left” advocating for property rights and the individual’s dominion over their own body, while the “right” proposes governmental control of an incredibly intimate part of its citizens’ anatomies. It’s a crazy mixed-up world.
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