On Tim Blair's blog, commenter "Uncle Milk" takes the words out of my mouth:
I'm anti-abortion. I can handle working with, or voting for, someone who opposes banning abortion of pragmatic grounds -- because it drives the practice underground, so you have women dying as well as babies. On odd-numbered days I tend towards that view myself.The type of legal pro-choicers I cannot stomach are those who think abortion is not only a legal right but a moral right, and who want to stop pro-lifers from showing films of embryos, or refusing to take part in carrying out abortions, or offering voluntary sidewalk counselling, or otherwise trying to peacefully, non-coercively persuade people to choose options other than aborting.
None of those are hypothetical examples. All are cases that have either occurred already, or that the pro-abortionists have acknowledged they'd like to see imposed, whether by law or by the even more coercive means of a mob chanting slogans.
Generally, I've found that [...] libertarian pro-choicers (Instapundit, Volokh, PJ O'Rourke, presumably Tim himself [...]) tend to fall into the first category. Leftists, though, almost invariably fall into the second, which is why I call them what they really are -- "pro-aborts" -- rather than dignify them with the weaselly title "pro-choice".
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