{"id":5324,"date":"2005-10-04T21:42:06","date_gmt":"2005-10-05T04:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=5324"},"modified":"2005-10-04T21:42:06","modified_gmt":"2005-10-05T04:42:06","slug":"show-of-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=5324","title":{"rendered":"Show of hands…"},"content":{"rendered":"

How many of you who self-identify as Republican or conservative support legislation like this<\/a>? \n<\/p>\n

\nPersonally, I can’t, off the top of my head, find a single legal reason to do so (but then, I<\/i> thought McCain-Feingold was on its face unconstitutional); and while I think restrictions on abortion are a matter for the legislature to take up (insofar as we’re in the peculiar position of having to balance the mother’s reproductive rights with those of the living fetus, or at the very least, that the idea of negative rights is not universally accepted), I don’t for one second<\/i> believe the state should presume the right to stop<\/i> non-criminals from using their bodies to reproduce out of some hypothetical future concern<\/i> for the children—even if they can show that a large percentage of single-parent children grow up at a disadvantage. \n<\/p>\n

\nBut most interstingly, didn’t Bill Bennett—however obliquely—just argue against this very thing?  That is, by pointing out that utilitarian arguments for restricting reproduction are nevertheless immoral<\/i> and reprehensible when they impinge upon individual liberties (in his hypothetical, crime rates<\/i> would decrease if black babies were aborted—the same kind of impulse that “justifies” this proposed Indiana legislation<\/a>, inasmuch as it argues “society” will be compelled to pay for the failings of “broken homes”), wasn’t Bennett in fact<\/i> on the side of many those who went out of their way to villify him?\n<\/p>\n

\nJust a thought. \n<\/p>\n

\n(h\/t Bill, via Feministe<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How many of you who self-identify as Republican or conservative support legislation like this?  Personally, I can’t, off the top of my head, find a single legal reason to do so (but then, I thought McCain-Feingold was on its face unconstitutional); and while I think restrictions on abortion are a matter for the legislature to take up (insofar as we’re in the peculiar position of having to balance the mother’s<\/p>\n

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