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One last thought to add to the discussion Scott and I are having about last night's abortion debate: It has been said again and again that John McCain, though he panders to the anti-choice base, isn't personally motivated by the issue and doesn't feel particularly strongly about it. If that's true, McCain deserves an Oscar for his "air quote" performance last night, in which he derisively referred to women's health exceptions embedded inside late-term abortion bans. The quote is worth looking at again, for it is dripping with sarcasm:
You know, that's been stretched by the pro-abortion movement in America to mean almost anything. That's the extreme pro-abortion position, quote, "health."McCain does care about abortion. So-called late-term, "partial birth abortions" account for less than 1 percent of all abortions performed in the United States, and are reserved for instances of severe health risks or for pregnancies that are not viable outside of the womb. No woman or doctor undertakes the procedure lightly. But no matter. John McCain would force women to carry those pregnancies to term.--Dana Goldstein
