22 January 2006
Predicaments of Iran and Choice
Similar predicaments are produced by making a military strike on Iran and defending “the right to choose” an abortion. The articles in the 22 January 2006 Sunday New York Times by David E. Sanger and William Saletan bring this similarity to the fore.
American opponents of the nuclear-menacing mullahs must wage a long difficult campaign to create among Iranian resisters confidence in their own power to overthrow the regime. Opponents of government suppression of women’s rights must work to relieve women of their being hobbled by the physical consequences of evolution.
We cannot rely on military swagger to achieve regime change in Iran, nor can we count on political sloganeering to resolve the moral dilemma of the destruction of fetuses as a means to protect the civil liberties of their mothers.
Similar predicaments are produced by making a military strike on Iran and defending “the right to choose” an abortion. The articles in the 22 January 2006 Sunday New York Times by David E. Sanger and William Saletan bring this similarity to the fore.
American opponents of the nuclear-menacing mullahs must wage a long difficult campaign to create among Iranian resisters confidence in their own power to overthrow the regime. Opponents of government suppression of women’s rights must work to relieve women of their being hobbled by the physical consequences of evolution.
We cannot rely on military swagger to achieve regime change in Iran, nor can we count on political sloganeering to resolve the moral dilemma of the destruction of fetuses as a means to protect the civil liberties of their mothers.
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