Abortion
Let’s turn to an unpleasant subject — abortion. When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the red flags were sent flying. The message: As more states eliminated or restricted abortion, the number of the procedures would go down. They have not. The zero abortion rate in states
Culture
The post mortem continues, with the Inquirer headlining, in the print edition, a story , “Why voters rejected Dems’ fascism warnings.” I’ll summarize the story this way: Voters cared more about the economy than democracy. That’s the Inquirer’s take, speaking for hard Left, Democratic bed-wetters. Mine is that
Abortion
Don’t panic ladies -- abortion is still legal, depending on where you live (and assuming only women can get pregnant). Despite the U.S. Supreme Court reversing Roe v, Wade, no woman will be more than two states away from a state that permits -- some actually encourage --
Culture
When I saw that headline in last Sunday’s Philadelphia Inquirer, I thought, yessssss! Finally, they get it. Then — uh-oh. Who is the “we” Will Bunch is talking about? When he writes about America, his column is the predictable porridge of pessimism and grievance. In this one, the world is
Abortion
Cards on the table: While I find abortion to be awful, I would not ban it. Can any rational person “like” it? Going back to the 1992 Bill Clinton dictum, it should be safe, rare, and legal. That was brilliantly crafted as an umbrella to include pro-choicers, alongside those who
Abortion
In reality, both sides have valid arguments. About abortion. The two sides are pro-abortion or anti-abortion, but since the A for abortion is something of a scarlet letter, the two sides organize themselves as pro-life or pro-choice. Because being pro sounds better than anti. The problem is another A-word — absolutes.
Politics
My family was immune from the verbal pyrotechnics that sometimes plague the major clan-gathering events at year’s end — Thanksgiving and Christmas. Why? We celebrated neither. We were not anti-American. We were Jewish and while you may understand us not hoisting a Christmas tree (although some of us did), many