If access to abortion is good, that must involve a recognition that the abortions that will result must at least in some instances be good (or better than the alternatives). If abortion could never be good, why make it accessible?
Does anyone else find it ironic that the Republican right, while strenuously opposed to abortion, are the biggest advertisement for it? Or perhaps that's just tautology.
>From: Daniel Davies <d_squared_2002 at yahoo.co.uk>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>Subject: [lbo-talk] The epistemology of "political credibility"
>Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 08:47:55 +0100 (BST)
>
>Michael D wrote:
>
> >>Access to abortion is good, and so are its medical providers. But that
>is
>not the same as saying abortion is good. To miss that point is to
>ghettoize
>yourself politically, as is talking about "sex workers" as if they're truck
>drivers or receptionists. You can do this if you want, but you will never
>succeed, and you will be squandering vital political credibility as you do
>it.<<
>
>As far as I can see, the implicit epistemological claim here is that the
>standard of validity for a political statement is one of whether it
>increases
>or decreases the likelihood of the Democratic Party getting elected. I can
>sort of see the roots of this theory in bits & pieces of Foucault and
>Irigaray
>on one side and Dewey and Rorty on the other. It's not a theory I'm ever
>likely to subscribe to myself, but I daresay you could still make a nice
>living
>out of it on the American university circuit.
>
>Oh and by the way, just a tip:
>
> >>Joanna sees this. Why don't you, Ms. Prole? (What does an RN in SF
>make
>these days? It ain't minimum wage.)<<
>
>It's often a good idea to leave a little bit of space between the posts
>where
>you make comments like this and the posts where you call other people
>"Commissar", because if people notice it's the same bloke behind both, they
>tend to take you a bit less seriously.
>
>best
>
>dd
>
>
>
>
>
>
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