ON THE BRINK OF THE SLOPE: (Sorry! Sorry!)

Brink Lindsey sends a helpful and sensible reply to my item in the blogwatch below.

“Two quick comments. First, I said that the ‘life begins at conception’ position is justified in part by slippery-slope arguments – I certainly recognize that there are other reasons as well. Also, note that the pro-choicers have their own slippery-slope problem – which drives them to defend atrocities like partial-birth abortion. Which produces a convoluted and tragic dynamic: pro-choice slippery-slope misconceptions drive pro-life slippery-slope misconceptions, and vice versa, the end result of which is to make both sides’ slippery-slope prophecies have some self-fulfilling validity and thus to inhibit the achievement of a sensible if arbitrary resolution of the matter.”