[lbo-talk] abortion poll

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 3/9/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Mar 9, 2007, at 3:52 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> > In practice "mostly legal" will mean illegal.period for women from low
> > income sectors. But "mostly legal" does enter a cutting wedge, so to
> > speak. If one can get an abortion for the convenience of better health
> > it's a slippery slope to an abortion for the hell of it -- which
> > ultimately is the only defensible position.
>
> This is not the way the American mind works. It's all about hugging
> the middle and avoiding extremes. Your position is an extreme; even a
> radically pro-abortion guy like me is uncomfortable with the phrase
> "for the hell of it." And if that's my reaction, the reaction of the
> Vital Center would be very very harsh.

One thing that the Americans and the Japanese -- two peoples who are
culturally quite different otherwise -- have in common: they are
rarely Jacobin.*

* Jim Straub claims that he is more in touch with Middle America than
most American leftists are, but, even in his case, there is a dead
giveaway that separates him from most Americans: his email address
<rustbeltjacobin at gmail.com>.  :->
-- 
Yoshie
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