The XX Factor : South Dakota

Q: Abortion Should Be Legal in (All, Most, Some, Few, No) Cases

E.J. Graff — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:12:00 GMT

Rachael, All right, you caught me on my own overheated rhetoric (see what I get for posting at 6 p.m. on the Friday before a holiday weekend? I had a great time at Boston's beautiful fireworks, by the way—hope you had a fab weekend too!). No, I do not...(read more)

A Defense of Anti-Abortion Rhetoric

Rachael Larimore — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:16:00 GMT

EJ, I hope you had a great holiday weekend. I don't want to wade into general disagreement territory, either—I suppose most of us have our heels dug in deeply enough that we're not going to change one another's minds. But I wanted to address a few points...(read more)

Thanks for the Poetry

Hanna Rosin — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:02:00 GMT

This abortion ruling strikes me as a lot like the religious culture-war debates, where we spend a lot of time fighting about symbolics and very little about things that matter (a creche vs. faith based funding, abortion language vs. actual access) The...(read more)

No Free Speech About Women?

E.J. Graff — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:48:00 GMT

As if Emily's article hadn't left me appalled enough about South Dakota's Orwellian new abortion "disclosure" law, I actually clicked over to read the 8th Circuit's appalling decision . Fortunately, no one else was in the office—everyone's sensibly headed...(read more)

One Quibble About South Dakota and Abortions

Rachael Larimore — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:36:00 GMT

Dana , Even though we sit on opposite sides of the abortion debate, I am also uneasy with South Dakota's law compelling abortion doctors to tell women that they are terminating the "the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being." There are...(read more)

Stalin in South Dakota

Dana Stevens — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:36:00 GMT

But the point, Melinda , of my hypothetical story about the pregnant woman in South Dakota is that neither she nor her doctors necessarily hold the belief that abortion is the taking of a life. The doctors who require her to sign aren't "pointing out"...(read more)

Pregnant in Rapid City

Dana Stevens — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:58:00 GMT

Emily’s piece about the new abortion bill set to go into effect in South Dakota has me madder and sadder than anything I’ve read in some time. (Actually, the last thing that got me into this state was also in Slate : In Steven Greenhouse’s story about...(read more)