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Thu 07 Jul 2009Creeping fundamentalism
Madam, – For reasons that escape me, Senator Ivana Bacik (July 14th) attempts to drag the topic of abortion into the blasphemy law debate. She aligns pro-life protesters with the strange fundamentalism of the blasphemy provision (a false analogy), and then opposes pro-life advocates to the Ryan report (a false dichotomy). Please permit me to dispute both arguments.
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