Douthat abortion counter
Ross Douthat abortion counter:
- douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/22/the-liberal-hour
But a tentative and ambiguous pro-choice trend in public opinion after a long period of pro-life gains does not mean that liberals have won the abortion wars, especially given that the main policy shift of the Obama era has been an uptick in state-level abortion restriction.
- nytimes.com/2013/01/27/opinion/sunday/douthat-divided-by-abortion-united-by-feminism.html
Stereotypes link the anti-abortion cause to traditionalist ideas about gender roles -- to the belief that a woman's place is in the home, or at least that her primary identity should be maternal rather than professional. Writing in the Reagan era, the sociologist Kristin Luker argued that this dimension of the debate trumped the question of whether unborn human life has rights: "While on the surface it is the embryo's fate that seems to be at stake, the abortion debate is actually about the meaning of women's lives."
2013 January