Dubiously self-styled “pro-life” activists’ ceaseless barnyard braying about the rights of the unborn drowns out an important qualifying detail in abortion debates: To be pro-choice isn’t to be pro-abortion. This isn’t a mistake. It’s a strategy. Muddy the reasons one has for favoring choice, and you can easily paint those who do support options as baby killers. To be anti-choice, on the other hand, is to be almost comically inflexible and willfully callous to the suffering people experience when they’re actually out in the world....

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