Abortion and Cake
Megan McArdle wants to have her cake, and eat it to.
I want abortion to be legal, but I am in favour of stigmatising it.. . . .
And when you vituperate and foam, when you call me names instead of engaging in civilized debate, when you argue with my social class, or my moral values, or my putatively limited intellectual gifts, rather than my points . . . well, it may make you feel good. It may impress your fellow travelers. And it undoubtedly protects you from ever having to consider that your position might be the slightest little bit wrong. But it does not persuade me, or any of the other mushy moderates that you need on your side if you want to actually make policy. Pro-choice folks: you're losing the Court. Pro-life folks: you've already lost the public. But you might have a chance of getting something done if you stopped shouting at us and talked to us instead.