[lbo-talk] Politics of Abortion (Al From Beats Tambourine)

martin mschiller at pobox.com
Thu Nov 18 03:37:10 PST 2004


On Nov 18, 2004, at 1:21 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


> More importantly, if the Republican Party made abortion illegal in all
> cases, it would not only lose a valuable wedge issue that it could
> keep using every two years but also ignite a powerful social movement.
> Far better to save Roe v. Wade and push for more and more
> restrictions on abortion at the state and federal levels than kill the
> goose that lays the electoral golden eggs.
>

I was attempting to argue that a tactic can be devised that absorbs both sides of a divisive issue within a 'socialist' biased proposal for resolution.

Martin



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