Well, unsurprisingly pro-lifers are trying to use this transparently obvious piece of casuistry in hopes of winning over the sympathy of the feeble-mided. What they don’t realize - or perhaps do but decide to ignore knowing that most people are gullable and easily impressionable and therefore likely to take the bait - is that the same sophistry can be used against a pro-life position. Hitler, BTK and Osama Bin Laden could be as well concieved as products of a decision against abortion…there.

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haha, wow, your’re a real genius!

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Genius indeed.
I depise shit like this.

But who’s gonna play Hitler in this commercial?

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Thank you Mr. Saletan for writing such a thought-provoking article. Your piece was smart, well-reported and fair — just another reason why Slate is among the best news Web sites.

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And, of course, I have to point out, she had a *choice*, which is fundamentally what the pro-choice movement is about. Allowing women to make their own decisions about their reproduction.

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It seems that fundamentalist proselitizing (whether social issues, religion, or politics) is now a function of media `reporting’ and advertisement businesses, so why not for national-wide sporting events?  Surely, CBS is probably just `going with the flow’,
and the latest Superior Court ruling opens the door even wider.  And the hell with what a woman really wants.

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Interesting to meditate over whether the people who applaud Ms. Lebow would have been there to support her if the baby had been seriously impaired and she had sustained chronic injury. 
Would they have advocated for society to provide life-long care, or would they have thrown in the towel after three bake sales at the church picnic?

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Let’s say the SCOTUS returns the abortion issue to the states, and an individual state outlaws it. When a woman develops a critically problematic pregnancy and dies in that state — when an abortion could have saved her life — does her doctor assume any legal liability for withholding this life-saving, medically proven procedure? How many wrongful death cases will be brought into the legal system by widowers and orphaned children and how will this affect medical malpractice insurance rates?

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