The pro-choice lobby’s exploitation of the Savita tragedy could backfire badly

The old saying “hard cases make bad law” should be heeded as much by progressive campaigners as by fusty lawmakers. Because it is equally true that tragic cases make bad reforms. The pro-choice activists currently holding up photos of Savita Halappanavar, while calling on the Irish authorities to legislate for some forms of abortion in order to “protect women’s lives”, could unwittingly help to give rise to an Irish abortion law that negates women’s autonomy rather than accentuating it. It …

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Fridays should be self directed

The first of a regular series of ‘dress down Friday’ posts from Paul, because… well, the weekend’s coming and whoever’s annoyed you on Slugger it’s, well, time to (try to) start chillin’…