The Pelvic Left just cannot get over the fact that we are a pro-life nation. Writing in the Nation a few days ago, Katha Pollitt bemoaned the recent elections that will bring “fifty-three additional anti-choice Republicans in the House and five in the Senate.”
Pollitt could not help but gild the lily. She says “Senator-elect Rand Paul, and incoming Representatives Mike Fitzpatrick and Tim Walberg oppose most common methods of birth control, in vitro fertilization, and stem cell research, and join Marco Rubio and Pat Toomey in opposing abortion even for rape and incest.” Perhaps all of this is true. One can certainly dream that someone wants to get the United States out of the global condom business and begin at least to regulate IVF. The most interesting thing for pro-lifers, however, is that these largely libertarian newcomers think one of the ways government should be limited is to get it out of the sanctioning of abortion.
