{"id":3882,"date":"2005-08-15T09:15:06","date_gmt":"2005-08-15T09:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/08\/aborting-logic.html"},"modified":"2005-08-15T09:15:06","modified_gmt":"2005-08-15T09:15:06","slug":"aborting-logic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/08\/aborting-logic.html","title":{"rendered":"Aborting Logic"},"content":{"rendered":"

At Mirror of Justice, Rick Garnett has good commentary<\/a> on a piece in the London Times yesterday decrying U.S.-funded anti-abortion efforts in Europe.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Women’s groups in Europe [rg:  presumably, "pro-abortion-rights women’s groups<\/strong>] contend that antiabortion positions have been promoted by otherwise mainstream politicians with debts to pay. In Poland, the Solidarity movement, which overthrew decades of Communist rule in 1989, received financial and moral support from the Catholic Church when it was still illegal under Communism.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

"Otherwise mainstream"?  But, given what the author just told us about Poland, it is clear that the anti-abortion position is, in fact, "mainstream."  Is the word supposed to be descriptive, and to relate to the facts on the ground, or does it instead have some kind of clear, fixed, political meaning (i.e., "in line with the views of those who write for and read the New York Times")?   <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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