As it happens, Jenny and Greg both think abortion should be legal. They think people have a right to control their own bodies. But they also find the abortion issue distressing and difficult, and believe abortion should be reserved for special circumstances (theirs didn’t qualify). Ramesh Ponnuru, a senior editor at National Review, is out to tell them their position is nonsense. In “The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life,” he seeks to debunk what he views as an incoherent centrism while, as Marxists used to say, “heightening the contradictions” of abortion-rights advocates.
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Gallagher is Catholic, although he sometimes visits the Baptist church to which his wife and son belong. He has run hard as the candidate whose values line up with the religious right on abortion, gay marriage, stem-cell research, etc. Yet that has not been enough to make Gallagher competitive.
Crist -- a Methodist and a bachelor -- has taken more of a live-and-let-live approach on some issues. He would allow civil unions for gays, for example, and although he says he is pro-life, he wouldn't favor passing laws to challenge Roe v. Wade. He also told the Witness in his interview that he did not agree with Gov. Jeb Bush's decision to intervene in the Terri Schiavo case on the grounds "some decisions should be left to God and family, not government."
Is Right Losing Grip On State?
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A review by a liberal who believes that Terri Schiavo was A) hopelessly vegetative and B) left instructions to be starved to death. Waste of reading time.