A federal court this evening blocked implementation of South Dakota H.B. 1217, the law passed earlier this year that would require a woman seeking an abortion to wait at least 72 hours after first meeting her doctor before having the procedure, and to visit a "crisis pregnancy center" for a lecture based on ideology, not medical or scientific evidence.
You know how abortion is related to automobile production and the United States balance of trade with South Korea? I don't either. But apparently Senator Orrin Hatch does.
On June 26, the New York Times ran an op-ed from Ross Douthat which highlighted the horror of there being 160 million girls missing in the world today, largely owing to sex-selective abortions.However, rather than indicting this as a horrible outgrowth of deeply entrenched male-supremacy and patriarchy, Douthat places the blame for this on women’s right to abortion and the few hard-won advances that have been made in some spheres for some women.As such, he ends up arguing for the very male supremacy and traditional values that lead to this kind of thing in the first place.
