[Dr. Frank fan]

"I feel like this could maybe cause less abortions in the world. You know, people would keep having kids instead." Goldberg then took the opportunity to attack Hasselbeck's pro-life views by asking her if she had ever been in a position to abort a child

???

Here's the thing I don't get. 1. Hasselbeck's statement amounted to only this concept: it would be good if there were fewer abortions. 2. For some reason, this didn't sit well with Goldberg. 3. As part of her argument, she waxed eloquently about how difficult a choice abortion is, and asserted that "very few women" want to have them.

So what was Goldberg's problem with Hasselbeck's statement in the first place?

It's one thing to think that abortion ought to be legal on some sort of pragmatic/public health grounds, i.e. the coathanger argument. The problem I really have is when people take that idea to such an extreme that (whether they really are or not) they come out sounding like fans of abortion - you speak of reducing abortion, they tell you to "back off". Where on earth does that come from anyway?

p.s.

Earlier in September, Barry Manilow had refused to appear on ABC's "The View," because the show's producers refused to remove Hasselbeck from the segment.

A nicely succinct illustration of how illiberal modern so-called "liberalism" is. They wouldn't remove one woman out of four with whose views he disagrees, therefore he wouldn't show up. He sees this stance as flowing directly from his political views, which (undoubtedly) he considers to go by the name "liberal". When the reality is that his stance is the exact opposite of liberal.

[Palmetto]

Here's the thing I don't get. 1. Hasselbeck's statement amounted to only this concept: it would be good if there were fewer abortions. 2. For some reason, this didn't sit well with Goldberg. 3. As part of her argument, she waxed eloquently about how difficult a choice abortion is, and asserted that "very few women" want to have them. So what was Goldberg's problem with Hasselbeck's statement in the first place?

Elizabeth, while a sweetheart and certainly yummy on the eyes, is not the most brilliant conservative mind we've got. Someone, say, a Clarence Thomas or Alito - aw heck, they're men - OK, Coulter or Peggy Noonan would have ripped up Whoopie's line of thinking and exposed her for the fool she is.

Nah, that wouldn't have happened either. Their brilliant words would have been shouted into obscurity by the illiterate minds of Hollywood.