Compromising on Abortion?

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Over the decades my views on abortion have evolved. I'm still pro-choice, but I no longer see the issue as solely about women's rights or sexual freedom. It is more complex -- freighted always with the phrase "it depends" and tinged with regret: Something has gone wrong and something difficult has to be done about it. An abortion is not a mere exercise of a right like voting. It is more complicated than that.

-- Richard Cohen for The Washington Post

Monk was taken aback to see this example of Red-ward moderation. Mr. Cohen is a liberal Democrat, and in his column today we see some appreciable sympathy for the anti-abortion perspective.

This is not to say that he even considers accepting the full anti-abortion, right-wing position, as he is content to let the Republicans have the more extreme positions as enunciated in the column. Still, it's interesting...

( Cohen column )

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Compromising on Abortion?

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Over the decades my views on abortion have evolved. I'm still pro-choice, but I no longer see the issue as solely about women's rights or sexual freedom. It is more complex -- freighted always with the phrase "it depends" and tinged with regret: Something has gone wrong and something difficult has to be done about it. An abortion is not a mere exercise of a right like voting. It is more complicated than that.

-- Richard Cohen for The Washington Post

Monk was taken aback to see this example of Red-ward moderation. Mr. Cohen is a liberal Democrat, and in his column today we see some appreciable sympathy for the anti-abortion perspective.

This is not to say that he even considers accepting the full anti-abortion, right-wing position, as he is content to let the Republicans have the more extreme positions as enunciated in the column. Still, it's interesting...

( Cohen column )

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