The stitches come out tomorrow, at which point I'll chime in with my two cents on Helena Silverstein's book, Girls on the Stand, which Scott reviewed for The American Prospect yesterday. While I agree with much of Scott's review, I think that a lawyer (to...
the vacuity of abortion “centrism”
I have a review of Helena Silverstein's new study of judicial bypass provisions in parental involvement statutes up at TAP. My bottom line:The particularly salient lesson to draw from Silverstein's.
Dana has an excellent post responding to claims that progressives should "de-politicize" issues of reproductive justice, noting that the main problem with this is that it's impossible. We've already been.
I have a guest post up at Feministe about Helena Silverstein's new book, which amasses and expands on the data she's collected about how parental involvement laws -- and especially the bypass provisions -- actually work on the ground. The answer is that they don't...
Melinda Henneberger. Her accomplishment should not be understated; within op-ed pages that regularly publish Tom Friedman and Maureen Dowd, and that gave a month-long guest slot to the Simpsons' crazy.
I have a post over at TAPPED noting that Kennedy's opinion in Carhart II was a "gaffe" in the Kinsley sense of telling the truth. And in this case, the.
Shockingly enough, the "pro-life case for contraception" continues to fail dismally among actual pro-lifers, as the Missouri legislature (with the strong support of Missouri pro-life, natch) voted down restoring funding for contraception because "it would have amounted to an endorsement of promiscuous lifestyles." Which will...
To follow-up on my recent post about William Saletan running interference for anti-choice ultrasound policies, NTEW explains in further detail why the moral inferences Saletan draws from ultrasounds don't actually.
Will Saletan has many of the annoying tics of the blue-state male abortion "centrist" that dominates editorial discourse on the topic, such as viewing national elections as referenda on abortion,.
It must be said that Ben Wittes's inevitable defense of Carhart II is somewhat less objectionable than his typical writing on the subject, if only by virtue of its incoherence. He labels the rank sexism of Kennedy's opinion "absurd," and even concedes that "in some...
Karen Tumulty has an account of Carhart II that fits squarely within the extremely annoying pox-on-all-their-houses genre endemic to media coverage of the subject. First, she has to claim that.
Lord Saletan address the masses on the subject of abortion, with an op-ed predicated on a dismayingly predictable howler:If you support abortion rights, this idea may strike you as nuts..