[lbo-talk] Peggy Noonan waxes weird

[John Thornton]

Shane Mage wrote:
>
> On Nov 1, 2008, at 2:33 PM, John Thornton wrote:
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>> martin wrote:
>>>  Bill Clinton famously said, over and over, that abortion should be 
>>> "safe, legal and rare." The "rare" mattered. It set a tone, as 
>>> presidents do, and made an important concession: You only want a 
>>> medical practice to be rare when it isn't good."
>>> Should be 'You only want a medical procedure to be rare when it 
>>> isn't necessary' . Abortion is obviously necessary until socialism 
>>> provides support for mothers.
>>>
>> Bill got two out of three correct.
>> Abortion should be safe, legal, and on demand; frequency is 
>> completely a personal issue and not one of concern to society at 
>> large. Abortion will be just as necessary under socialism only then 
>> it should be free upon demand.
>
>
> No, I've never met or heard of a woman for whom abortion was anything 
> but (even in the best case) an undesired outcome of coition.  Clinton 
> was right but "rare" is overly euphemistic.  I would have had him say 
> "Abortion should be safe and legal, and every pregnancy should be 
> voluntary." To achieve that we need universal sex education, universal 
> access to effective birth control, and social encouragement of 
> homosexuality.  Stupid American attitudes on sex ensure that the US 
> would continue to led the world in abortions even were Roe v. Wade to 
> be undone.
>
>
> Shane Mage 

No, what?
No it is not a completely personal issue and not one of concern to 
society at large?
Or no it should not be free upon demand as should all health care?
Regardless of the level of sex education unwanted pregnancies will occur.
The goals of sex education don't include reducing the number of 
abortions does it?
Decreasing unwanted pregnancies? That would seem a worthy goal.
Decreasing abortions? That is a private matter.

John Thornton