tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673382.post110668371639768411..comments2024-03-27T08:33:11.834-07:00Comments on There is some truth in that: Senator Clinton's Roe v. Wade speechJonathan Jenkins Ichikawahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05260245860017778409noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673382.post-1106684579228699302005-01-25T12:22:00.000-08:002005-01-25T12:22:00.000-08:00Savannah, I think that's largely right, but I don'...Savannah, I think that's largely right, but I don't think this even counts as being concilliatory about abortion. It's more like she's saying, "yeah, we disagree on abortion, but here's this other really important thing we agree on."<br /><br />She recognizes that she's still at odds with pro-life groups. She's just pointing to *one respect* in which they shouldn't be at odds.<br /><br />You're quite right about the panicking, of course -- we just need to recognize that people will panick at anything that even REMOTELY SOUNDS LIKE it might be concilliatory, not only at things that are.Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05260245860017778409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673382.post-1106684295002148192005-01-25T12:18:00.000-08:002005-01-25T12:18:00.000-08:00Abortion is one of those subjects where people who...Abortion is one of those subjects where people who have any opinion at all tend to feel so strongly about it that any conciliatory language feels threatening to them. If you believe abortion is the mass-marketed murder of tiny helpless babies, then if anyone says anything remotely conciliatory about it, you panic. If you believe anti-abortion laws are the first step towards fascist governmental control of women's rights to their own bodies, then if anyone says anything remotely conciliatory about them, you panic. And once you panic, it's all over for rational discourse.<br /><br />Ms. Clinton may be cynically trying to have it both ways (much like Kerry on the Iraq war), but her position is exactly right: focus on eradicating the circumstances that cause women to seek abortion, and everybody wins.<br /><br />-SavannahAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com