Deciphering Neil Steinberg
A more or less line-by-line discussion (commentary, correction) of Neil Steinberg’s column today, “What’s behind anti-abortion frenzy?”:
. . . . The abortion issue seems to be heating up in a way beyond the flap of a prominent Catholic school conferring an honorary degree upon a president who supports a woman’s right to end her pregnancy.
End the life of her unwanted unborn.
According to the latest polls, suddenly more Americans call themselves “pro-life” than “pro-choice” — 51 percent vs. 42 percent — a dramatic shift from just last year, when 50 percent were pro-choice and 44 percent pro-life.
Good for him, to bring that out.
What does this mean? Well, I suppose if you are pro-life, it means the nation has had an unexpected moral reassessment. As if waking from a dream, it gazes down and suddenly sees the blood on its hands, and recoils in moral horror.
Sounds about right.
Or, if you are pro-choice, you might dismiss the polls as meaning nothing, a hard rightward swing among Republicans and nothing more.
Arbitrary dismissal, it seems.
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When one understands the horror of eugenics and Margaret Sanger’s role, it’s easy to see the move to pro-life, as described in Steinberg’s third- and second-from-last statements. Obviously, Neil underestimates the public’s common sense.
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