balmofgilead | (no subject)

respect_otters writes some very good pieces on abortion and abortion rights. (And about other stuff too, but this is her most recent topic.)

The first piece is about a New Yorker article discussing the absolute nature of South Dakota's abortion ban and the dilemma it creates: A person who professes to be pro-life but insists on a rape-and-incest exception (which covers most pro-life politicians in this country, including President Bush) is saying one of two things: either it is justifiable to kill children in some circumstances, or what grows in a woman's uterus is a child if the woman had sex voluntarily but not if she was forced into it.

The second is a response to someone who questioned the logic in loving one's own, already-born child while advocating abortion rights (er, "vehement declarations that other children are disposable" according to the commenter).

Very well done, both.