Three thoughts about abortion

1)It’s standard government rationale that federal/state money shouldn’t pay for abortion because people are opposed to it. Based on this logic, we should also stop spending money on executions, the CIA and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Yet somehow, abortion’s the only thing this thinking applies to.
2)Many right-wingers have repeatedly insisted that it’s perfectly rational to single out Muslims boarding planes, profile them and spy on them. Given that anti-abortion terrorism is the work of right-wing Christians, I’m sure they’d agree that it would be completely rational and just to profile and spy on any Christian conservative who comes near an abortion clinic. Just propose it and watch them agree (I intend to bring this up in a column for my old paper next year—I can’t wait to see the agreement).
3)Conservative anti-porn activists also claim that we should ban pornography/erotica because it will lead to adultery, sex addiction, masturbation and rape. By this logic, since anti-abortion rhetoric leads people to murder, I’m sure conservatives would agree that’s a good reason for banning criticism of abortion too.