A Limited Defense of Michael Steele

In fairness, by Republican standards, I don’t really see how Steele flip-flopped. After all, the Republican position on abortion seems to be that abortion should be “left to the states,” and this state-centric position is best accomplished by passing a constitutional amendment banning abortion in all 50 states as well as a broad array of other federal abortion regulations. So, by these standards, Steele’s position is perfectly consistent! Admittedly, if you use the standards of basic logic his position makes absolutely no sense, just like the Republican one, but any of the nation’s prominent male op-ed columnists will tell you, this doesn’t change the fact that the abortion criminalization lobby has a commitment to rigorous moral reasoning the rest of us can only envy.