{"id":5103,"date":"2006-01-26T17:00:20","date_gmt":"2006-01-26T17:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/01\/told-ya-redux.html"},"modified":"2006-01-26T17:00:20","modified_gmt":"2006-01-26T17:00:20","slug":"told-ya-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/01\/told-ya-redux.html","title":{"rendered":"Told Ya, Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"

Katha Pollitt of the Nation responds to Will Saletan in "Pro-Choice Puritans."<\/a><\/p>\n

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The trouble with thinking in terms of zero abortions is that you make abortion so hateful you do the antichoicers’ work for them. You accept that the zygote\/embryo\/fetus has some kind of claim to be born. You start making madonna-whore distinctions. In the New York Times Magazine<\/em> Eyal Press, a contributing writer to this magazine, writes of his father, a heroically brave and dedicated abortion doctor: "Had the women…been free-love advocates for whom the procedure seemed a mere matter of convenience, he would not have been so angry" at the antichoice protesters who hounded him and his patients. Why not? Because a sexy single woman should suffer for not suffering? Nobody’s proposing the walk of shame for men who don’t or won’t use condoms, or stern lectures for them in the clinic waiting room either. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Katha Pollitt of the Nation responds to Will Saletan in "Pro-Choice Puritans." The trouble with thinking in terms of zero abortions is that you make abortion so hateful you do the antichoicers’ work for them. You accept that the zygote\/embryo\/fetus has some kind of claim to be born. You start making madonna-whore distinctions. 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