Tulsi Gabbard, conservative crush
She’s not playing hard-to-get
Abortion
Tuesday
Thursday
Alabama’s abortion law is a progressive leap forward
Ignore the Handmaid’s Tale memes. The new legislation pushes back against sexism and racism
Sunday
The futility of the sex strike
The #SexStrike is all about showing disgusting, phallus-waving men who’s boss
Tuesday
Pyle on: the warped logic of online cancel culture
Political positions are more nuanced than what can fit into a tweet
Tuesday
Conservatives shouldn’t get too excited about Tulsi Gabbard
You’re getting a reasonable, good faith opponent, not a political ally
Monday
Abortion and the new covert culture war
The two sides of the debate don’t inhabit the same universe
Tuesday
Frame by frame, Gosnell tears apart everything America has told itself about abortion
Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer reviewed
Thursday
Social conservatism is dead
Just before Ireland voted overwhelmingly to end the country’s constitutional ban on abortion, Catholics in the fishing village of Clogherhead could be seen storming out of Sunday mass halfway through the service. Why? Their parish priest had come on too strong. He had not only ordered them how to vote but also supplied grisly details of an abortion procedure. Presumably some of them voted to repeal the eighth amendment. The ‘Yes’ campaign couldn’t have won its two-thirds majority without the support of practising Catholics. Very few of these, we can assume, were militantly pro-choice. Instead, they were reassured by promises that any future law would be limited in its impact
Thursday
Ireland’s abortion referendum has been horrifically one-sided
It will, as one pro-life campaigner told me, take an act of God to swing the Irish referendum for the No side tomorrow. I’m all for referendums but this one has been so wildly unbalanced as to make the Brexit campaign look almost effete in its regard for impartiality and fair play. The polls suggest a win for the Yes side, on repealing the eighth amendment to the Irish constitution which protects the right to life of the unborn – something around the 44-32 per cent margin according to the last Irish Times poll. It’s a big deal, abortion. But there is not one political party that represents the No side
