{"id":4448,"date":"2018-07-05T04:49:36","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T04:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/07\/05\/let-roe-go\/"},"modified":"2018-07-05T04:49:36","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T04:49:36","slug":"let-roe-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/07\/05\/let-roe-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Roe Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-partisan\/wp\/2018\/07\/03\/let-roe-go\/?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.a879d40ab36c\">Megan McArdle<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">I am myself uneasily pro-choice. Moreover,&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-partisan\/wp\/2018\/06\/28\/behold-the-priest-kings-of-the-future-supreme-court\/?utm_term=.745bfe454e1d\">just a few days ago<\/a>, I argued that the increasingly bitter judicial wars tearing apart today\u2019s politics can only be ended with more judicial deference to legislatures and to precedent. It stands to reason that I would be dismayed by the politically electrifying prospect that&#0160;<em>Roe<\/em>&#0160;might be overruled entirely. But I wouldn\u2019t be dismayed. I\u2019d be glad to see&#0160;<em>Roe<\/em>&#0160;go, as quickly as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">[. . .]<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Somewhat paradoxically, the way to make abortion less contentious is to throw the matter back to the states so that people can argue about it. Debating the difficult decisions regarding gestational age and circumstances would force people to confront the hard questions that abortion entails, which tends to have a moderating effect on extreme opinions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Returning the matter to the states would give most people a law they can live with, defusing the rage that permeates politics and has more than once culminated in acts of terrorism against doctors who perform abortions.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megan McArdle: I am myself uneasily pro-choice. Moreover,&#0160;just a few days ago, I argued that the increasingly bitter judicial wars tearing apart today\u2019s politics can only be ended with more judicial deference to legislatures and to precedent. It stands to reason that I would be dismayed by the politically electrifying prospect that&#0160;Roe&#0160;might be overruled entirely. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/07\/05\/let-roe-go\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Let Roe Go&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[313],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}