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New Republic: National media persistently underestimates the role of abortion in ?right-wing? politics

By Alliance Alert

Ed Kilgore writing at The New Republic: "Perhaps because the national media tend to be secular, we are persistently underestimating the role that abortion plays in right-wing politics. Yet it is key to understanding some of the zealous opposition that caused GOP primary voters to overthrow Mike Castle [in Delaware]. Unless you are an aficionado of conservative blogs, you probably didn't notice the deep opposition that many on the right were taking to Castle's pro-choice views . . . Even if . . . many conservative voters now think of climate change legislation as a serious threat to American freedom, it is worth remembering that the [right-to-life] movement considers abortion analogous to the Holocaust, and pro-choice pols to be enablers of monstrous evil--at worst conscious advocates of genocide." Via In Medias Res.

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on September 17, 2010 (boomark / email).