Is abortion sacred?

Partisans of either the “pro-life” or “pro-choice” positions on abortion will have us believe there is no middle ground between these poles. This is, of course, nonsense. For example, the “pro-choice” American libertarian scholar Murray Rothbard opposed the US Supreme Court’s “Roe Vs. Wade” decision. This effectively made abortion a right for Americans. Rothbard dissented on the grounds that it centralised decision making on an issue rightfully and best left to state and local jurisdictions. A “pro-life” colleague of Rothbard, Martin Anderson takes up the decentralist argument against Roe Vs. Wade here. The Rothbard / Anderson example shows that compromise here is possible.

What interests me is the amazing extent to which abortion has now been made sacred. To criticise abortion or people who have abortions is to expose oneself to all sorts of tut tutting and the moralistic tones of disapproval that, we are told, are supposed to be reserved for those who “fart in church”. Even learned Church leaders, from Churches doctrinally opposed to abortion, treat the consumers and suppliers of the abortion industry with kid gloves. Even attempts to deal pragmatically with the economic and military consequences of what amounts to a de facto small-l liberal population policy, of which abortion rights is certainly an inherent part, are inhibited by the sacred status of abortion.

This is by no means a local Australian or even western issue. That sanctified and august body, the United Nations, an outfit Roger Kimball calls a “saintly institution”, even believes it has the right to bring Poland into line for not following small-l liberal dogma.

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Posted by Guest Blogger on Monday, November 29, 2004 at 06:44 PM in Oh Tempora, Oh Mores
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Boscov’s is anti-Christmas

Boscov’s, a $1 billion department store chain based in Pennsylvania, is a 91-year-old, privately-held company.

It “is focused on bringing the latest styles and trends in fashion and home decor” to you.  But it won’t sell you a Christmas card.  A reader writes: “Boscov’s displays gift cards for sale throughout the store. The Christmas gift card only says “Merry”, because any reference to the word “Christmas” is banned at Boscov’s. However, it is side-by-side with a “HAPPY HANUKKAH” card. Please encourage all Christians to boycott Boscov’s. Please help spread the word soon, as Boscov’s makes the bulk of their annual profits selling the very Christmas gifts they refuse to acknowledge.”


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Posted by jonjayray on Monday, November 29, 2004 at 02:58 AM in Marxism & Culture War
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Immigration and the Apologetics of Enoch Powell

The political philosophy of American Conservatism is a volatile composition: libertarianism, religious and social traditionalism, corporatism, and simple befuddlement. As a frontier people we’ve had little use for intellectual exercises; we had a continent to manage. As such I think conservatism remains undefined in America; I didn’t understand conservatism until I read the works of an Englishman, Roger Scruton.

Similarly, I was led to another Englishman, Enoch Powell, while seeking clarity on the immigration question. If any Western thinker has made the case for immigration restriction in a more principled and coherent manner than Powell I don’t know him.

Reading Powell’s thinking on immigration I discovered something else…

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Posted by leslie on Sunday, November 28, 2004 at 10:43 PM in British Politics
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How Ordinary People Come to Take Part in Extraordinary Evil

Ever since 9/11 we have all been bombarded with the word evil as it has been resurrected once again to dehumanize one group in the effort to mobilize another group before marching off to war. I don’t much like the term evil because it is easy to use but very difficult to explain. It seems to me that acting inhuman, based on our evolutionary past, would mean living in peace with our neighbors, not killing them. We are collectively living under a falsehood—that humans prefer peace at any cost over collective action against others for their own advantage.

A recent book sheds some light on this subject entitled Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing by James Waller, 2002. This book covers a lot of ground, so I will only touch on what I believe is relevant to our current situation in the West with regards to the war on terror. The first part of the book discusses different genocides but especially focuses on the Nazis as it has been the most studied mass murder. In short, what the research shows is that the top echelons of the Nazi party were ordinary men of higher than average intelligence; nothing stands out that would differentiate them from our leaders today. Likewise, the average German soldier as well as the average Soviet soldier slipped into genocidal acts of brutality, because all humans are capable of such actions once certain social conditions are met.

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Posted by Matt Nuenke on Sunday, November 28, 2004 at 04:43 PM in Books
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Dog bites Man. Yawn

In what has now become boringly familiar to anyone following mainstream journalism for the past half a century, the story lines are now so predictable that we needn’t even bother to read them.

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Posted by Phil Peterson on Sunday, November 28, 2004 at 07:05 AM in Genetics & Human Bio-Diversity
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Conflicted motherhood backlash

In a recent Melbourne Age newspaper column Joanna Murray-Smith questioned the feminist values she had been brought up with. She felt that feminist careerism hadn’t left her enough time to properly mother her children.

Predictably there was a backlash. There have been five newspaper columns in the Age attacking the single Joanna Murray-Smith column. On Friday alone, there were two such columns.

There was nothing terribly new in these opposing pieces. One of the Friday columns, by a single mother and full-time writer, Allison Croggon, was most interesting for the kind of liberal language it used.

According to Allison Croggon motherhood has been a lot more fun than she expected. However, she describes the “role” of being a mother, rather than the “tasks” (which she enjoys), as an “iron cage” from which women have to seek “freedom”.

Why attack the “role” of motherhood in this way? Because liberalism (on which feminism is based) insists that we choose our own roles. Traditional motherhood is not a role that women choose for themselves but is, according to liberal thought, a mere “biological destiny” from which women have to escape. That’s why Allison Croggon can simultaneously confess that she enjoys the actual work of motherhood, but still insist that women need to “escape” from the “iron cage” of the motherhood role.

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Posted by Guest Blogger on Sunday, November 28, 2004 at 05:10 AM in Australian Politics
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Natural society

Is there such a thing as “natural society”? The difference between the traditional and modernist outlook is that the former believes in it and the latter does not, at least if “nature” is taken to refer to anything substantial and not simply to content-free abstractions like freedom and equality. The traditional standpoint is that basic institutions like family, property, religion and ethnic affiliation are natural. Secondary features and particularities of line-drawing vary here and there, but the institutions themselves are tied to basic human realities that don’t change much and require social relations — if they are to function at all well — to settle into certain forms that follow a logic and order of their own. That natural logic and order are affected by circumstances to some extent, and they can be supported or disrupted, but for the most part they go their own way and we can’t make of them what we will.

Advanced modern thought of course rejects all that. Ethnicity is constructed, family is whatever we accept as family, religion has no content of its own, and property has a bad conscience even though it has turned out surprisingly hard to abolish or change as an institution. That outlook is held with extraordinary absolutist vehemence. To reject it, to think those basic social categories have to do with important realities that can’t be made into whatever people want, is not simply to hold a different view of things. It is to be racist, sexist, homophobic, fundamentalist, and a greedhead — the personification and agent of everything that is worst and most oppressive in humanity.

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Posted by Guest Blogger on Saturday, November 27, 2004 at 10:09 AM in Political Philosophy
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Some fun with a leftist ninny

I am indebted to the mini-Chomsky himself, the great Brian Leiter, for a recommendation of a long article by Orcinus about the probability of America “going Fascist”.

Seeing Hitler was a socialist and Mussolini was a Marxist, you might think Orcinus is worried about arrogant trends in the Democratic party but, no, it is the GOP that he thinks is likely to “go Fascist”. The Leftist origins of Fascism don’t get a mention, in fact, so one knows immediately that the article will be low on scholarship. And its chief scholarly source for the nature of Fascism is in fact R.O. Paxton, the “historian” (much lauded in the N.Y. Times, of course) who said Hitler was an “antisocialist”—when the very name of Hitler’s political party was (translated) “The National Socialist German Worker’s Party”! I think I have already at this early stage said enough about the article concerned to dismiss it for the claptrap it is but I cannot resist having a bit more fun with it.

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Posted by jonjayray on Friday, November 26, 2004 at 07:11 PM in Blogs & Blogging
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(Belgian) State Security will fight Moslem extemism with dialogue

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Posted by Johan Van Vlaams on Friday, November 26, 2004 at 06:07 PM in Humour
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The interfering state and the unbearable lightness of being

I suppose the year must have been 1984 when I read not Orwell but Milan Kundera’s masterpiece of conflicted love and lust, fidelity and possessiveness.  I had come across a wildly approving review in one of the nationals written by a Tory MP which, what with the naked mirror-walking and Tomas’s other rutting male adventures, seemed a bit strange.  Then again, considering all the sleaze stories that appeared in the press during John Major’s time as PM, perhaps not.  Anyway, this was actually a book less about nookie than those debilitations of the soul inflicted by an interfering state.

Now, I never needed my view of eastern European communism to be confirmed.  That didn’t really interest me.  No, it was just the title of the book that caught my imagination.  For some years I had been railing within, as blow-hard right-wingers tend to, at the declining morality of the nation.  Of course, it’s one thing to bemoan standards of public morality which are sinking into the morass.  It’s another to formulate a socio-political path to redemption.

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Posted by Guessedworker on Friday, November 26, 2004 at 04:58 PM in Political Philosophy
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Mariel Garza: Be Careful What You Wish For

It’s time to go our own way. With the sixth-largest economy in the world and a population larger than most countries, we have the means to do it. And we should take Oregon and Washington with us.

Mariel Garza, Los Angeles Daily News

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Posted by leslie on Thursday, November 25, 2004 at 10:54 PM in U.S. Politics
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1m Christians sign EU religion plea

1m Christians sign EU religion plea.

The Parable of the Prodigal Son
Luke 15

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Posted by leslie on Thursday, November 25, 2004 at 12:25 PM in Christianity
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No chickens in Kiev

The world is watching Ukraine.  In Kiev and in all the cities across that 75% of the country which is Ukrainian-speaking the rights of the electoral majority are being asserted.  The only question would seem to be whether peaceful protest will be enough to dislodge Viktor Yanukovich.

It is not certain that it will.  The results of Sunday’s run-off are to be officially announced today.  If Yanukovich is declared the winner, as he has insisted he was, a highly unpredictable trial of strength will ensue.  Yanukovich has powerful friends, among them State President Leonid Kuchma (who in 2001 was embroiled in the extraordinary scandal of the disappearance and gruesome decapitation of an opposition journalist, Georgyi “George” Gongadze).  Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is another, and has already welcomed Yanukovich’s self-declared victory.

The great unknown was the position of the army, security services and the police force.  Only the Defence Ministry was thought to be definitely loyal to the President.  But this morning Defense Minister Oleksander Kuzmuk has declared neutrality.

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Posted by Guessedworker on Wednesday, November 24, 2004 at 08:07 AM in World Affairs
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Looking for the Barbarians

A few years ago I visited the pre-Columbian monuments in Mexico and was lucky enough, while there, to find myself in the company of a well known Mexican writer, thoroughly versed in the history of the Indian peoples of the region.

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Posted by leslie on Tuesday, November 23, 2004 at 06:18 PM in Books
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Worst case scenario

Picture for a moment an early morning, say, next Spring.  It is the middle of the rush hour in a city in the north of England.  But this is not to be just any city or any morning.  This morning will be remembered as long as men draw breath.  This morning local radio has reported that three identical backpacks, each equipped with a tank and motorised aerosol, have been discovered - one at the railway station, two on busy street corners.  The tanks were said to be empty.  How many more there are out there nobody knows.  Shock and rumour spreads.  Al Qaeda.  People are talking about biological weapons, smallpox possibly.  Could it be true?  It doesn’t matter.  Everyone knows what it means if it is true.

By nine the broadcast media are reporting the events and speculating on their cause.  Scheduled programming has been suspended.  A few talking heads – opposition politicians, terrorist experts, ex-military men, an ex-scientist at Porton Down – are wiseacring at short notice in the way they do.  But as yet there is no official statement.

In any case almost as one, people are drawing the obvious conclusion and deciding what they must therefore do.  An exodus of citizens terrified for their children and themselves bursts into being.  Schools just filled are quickly emptied.  Cases are packed, cars loaded and driven out into streets in which no law, no bar to progress is tolerated.

It takes another sixty minutes for central government to act.  There is no great appeal for calm.  Calm, if that is what it is, will be enforced.  Everyone attempting to leave or who has left the city is to return.  Everyone contemplating leaving the city is to remain where they are.  All are to obey a 24-hour curfew to be effected from 6pm.  Ominously, there is no confirmation or denial of the rumours, no attempt to appear other than authoritarian.  Public fear reaches a point of conflagration.

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Posted by Guessedworker on Monday, November 22, 2004 at 04:30 PM in British Politics
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A disgraced dollar, an enfeebled euro - who benefits?

The renminbi is China’s paper currency; the word translates as the people’s currency and features one of history’s greatest criminals. Hearing the word “renminbi” first a few years ago I’ve rarely heard it uttered since. Americans, and Europeans, too, ought to know much more about China and its currency.

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Posted by leslie on Monday, November 22, 2004 at 02:25 PM in Economics & Finance
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The Bear’s Lair: Creating a saving culture

The Bear’s Lair: Creating a saving culture
(published by United Press International, 22 November)

The U.S. savings rate was a dismal 0.2 percent of Gross Domestic Product in the third quarter of 2004, and nobody but economists seemed to care.  Once foreign central banks stop financing the United States’ twin trade and budget deficits, this will have to change, or crisis will ensue.  Changing the ingrained U.S. spending habit won’t be easy, and will certainly be unpopular.

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Posted by karlmagnus on Monday, November 22, 2004 at 12:05 PM in Economics & FinanceU.S. Politics
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America: Onwards & Upwards

In a time of war the American public remains sober and ready to bear any burden.

Well, you know my theory of punishment.

Posted by leslie on Sunday, November 21, 2004 at 11:54 PM in Social Sciences
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Sex Toys become “mainstream”

Before I begin, I must of course apologise for the rather “in your face” nature of this post and indeed its headline. It is shocking and if it is found to be shocking, there is still perhaps some life left in our souls. There is an article in the Telegraph today which caught my eye.

“Sex sells, everybody knows that. But it now sells in Debenhams and Boots as well as the seedy, neon-lit shops of Soho and King’s Cross.”

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Conflicted motherhood

Joanna Murray-Smith confesses

in a recent Age article,

“I am leading the life the feminists of the ‘70s dreamed of: successful professional and mother - but it’s no dream.”

Why not? Because of the mental anguish she feels at not having time to spend with her children. She asks,

“Where is the play time with our kids? Where are the long hours of unhurried togetherness?”

She admits that “I go to bed at night asking myself over and over again how much our working lives really benefit our children?” and that “increasingly I resent the dishonesty of pretending that our children are not guinea pigs in an experiment that is, in many ways, a failure.”

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Posted by Guest Blogger on Saturday, November 20, 2004 at 05:35 PM in Australian Politics
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Berkeley sociologists dream about voter fraud in Florida

The “voter fraud” explanation that many Leftists give as the reason for their loss of the recent U.S. Presidential election has already been pretty thoroughly debunked.  But Leftists are still not giving up on it. Given their own efforts to rig the vote by enrolling dead people etc., one can understand their conviction that there was foul play. It’s another example of their chronic “projection” (seeing their own faults in others). And I am sure that one place where the fraud explanation is almost universally treated as gospel would be the People’s Republic of Berkeley. So it is no surprise that a group of Berkeley sociologists have done a statistical analysis (PDF) which they believe offers proof that voting-machine fraud took place in the Florida voting.

The method they adopted is amusing, however. I myself taught sociological statistics at a major Australian university for many years so maybe I can explain simply what they did. They took a large number of things that normally predict the vote and combined them to produce an estimate of what the vote SHOULD have been. They then show that this estimate of the Republican vote was lower than the official Republican vote in precincts where voting machines were used. They then conclude that the official figures were “rigged” because they diverged from the theoretical figures.

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Posted by jonjayray on Saturday, November 20, 2004 at 10:00 AM in U.S. Politics
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Death to Iraqis, Not to Foxes

A superb article in the Spectator by Geoffrey Wheatcroft sums up the sheer absurdity, cynicism, corruption and hypocrisy of our political culture:


http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php?id=5275&issue=2004-11-20

 

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A Practical Step for Restoring Civil Society

“From the 60s in the Netherlands, we have seen we were almost too tolerant. We accepted almost everything here in Holland,” said Gerard Van As, a member of Parliament. “They call the Netherlands almost a breeding place for criminal organizations.”
Foxnews, November 16, 2004.

In the late ‘80s I moved from a quiet and homogenous part of the country to attend a university in Louisiana. Needing money I began working the evening shift at Kinko’s Copies, in downtown New Orleans. I was in for a shock.

I witnessed many disturbing crimes - including armed robbery. In another incident a man whose throat had been cut – ear to ear – stumbled into the store begging for help. I told him the ambulance was coming, he then weakly raised his arm, extending his open hand, and said, “God bless you”, and then he fainted from blood loss.

But watching a man defecate in the street shocked my middle class sensibilities the most:  he yanked his trousers off, squatted, and then, appeared to wipe himself with his own bare hand; I stood stunned as I watched this.

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Posted by leslie on Friday, November 19, 2004 at 05:49 PM in Social Sciences
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If liberal opinion can do it for Mandela, why not ...

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With thanks to the cartoonist at Vlaams Belang

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Learning difficulties

On a day when Prince Charles spoke for us all and Charles Clarke spoke for the rest, I was pleased to find that John Ray had got there ahead of them.

He reported this article by English lecturer Joanna Williams.  She has come to the realisation that this government’s great drive for social inclusion is counter-educational.

Inclusion is, of course, code for equality.  But it’s code that we, as nice, decent, high-minded people are not meant to quibble with.  After all, who would protest at something so soft-focus, so clearly well-intentioned and humane as inclusion, whereas an awful lot of us will bitterly contest the harder, politically divisive issue of “equality” – be it of opportunity or outcome.  No, inclusion is a useful word, a real asset for the left.  We need to unpick the meaning of it ruthlessly because the meaning of it is that classic dictatorship of the proletariat: the lowest common denominator.

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Science 11 June 2010:
Vol. 328. no. 5984, pp. 1408 - 1411
DOI: 10.1126/science.1189047
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The Neuropeptide Oxytocin Regulates Parochial Altruism in Intergroup Conflict Among Humans
Carsten K. W. De Dreu,1,* Lindred L. Greer,1 Michel J. J. Handgraaf,1 Shaul Shalvi,1 Gerben A. Van Kleef,1 Matthijs Baas,1 Femke S. Ten Velden,1 Eric Van Dijk,2 Sander W. W. Feith3
Humans regulate intergroup conflict through parochial altruism; they self-sacrifice to contribute to in-group welfare and to aggress against competing out-groups. Parochial altruism has distinct survival functions, and the brain may have evolved to sustain and promote in-group cohesion and effectiveness and to ward off threatening out-groups. Here, we have linked oxytocin, a neuropeptide produced in the hypothalamus, to the regulation of intergroup conflict. In three experiments using double-blind placebo-controlled designs, male participants self-administered oxytocin or placebo and made decisions with financial consequences to themselves, their in-group, and a competing out-group. Results showed that oxytocin drives a “tend and defend” response in that it promoted in-group trust and cooperation, and defensive, but not offensive, aggression toward competing out-groups.
1 Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Roetersstraat 15, 1018 WB Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2 Department of Psychology, Leiden University, Postbox 9555, 2300 RB, Netherlands.
3 Stichting AllesKits, Cypruslaan 410, 3059 XA Rotterdam, Netherlands.

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