Jonah Goldberg on Hollywood & abortion:
And, the moment the women decide to have the baby, the fetus is automatically discussed as if it were a complete person worth talking to, reading to, singing to etc. The implication here, of course, is that if Rachel or whoever had simply chosen not to have the baby, that choice and that choice alone would have been enough of an abracadabra to metaphysically transform the fetus into nothing more than a lump of cells or the inconvenient consequence of a one-night-stand not worth reading to at all.
Via Glenn, whose analogy I don't think works. You have a duty to rescue if you're the person who put the baby in the water in the first place.
Sunday, November 14, 2004
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