Calling Michelle Malki...

One of the standard ripostes to an analogical argument against one's position is to protest that the opponent is "comparing apples and oranges." With regard to abortion politics, the field is rife with opportunities for this thrust. For ...

What's missing? The fact that numerous women have also been injured (many of them seriously) from this drug cocktail. We've focused on the 5 deaths that we know about while ignoring the numerous women who've reported adverse effects/complications af...

Perhaps I'm missing the point but wasn't Malkin arguing that the dangers of the drug- and the indications of harmful effect- be pointed out to those who are going to be taking it?

What I object to most about her blog is the way it panders to rightist populism. Leftist populism is not better, but I'll only criticize her for what she writes.

I guess it was less than a year ago when I saw Michelle Malkin's name starting to appear frequently on the net; I checked her blog, and I didn't care for most of what she'd written at the time. But it seems all it takes is to have some surgery, posing with BJ lips, and a little photoshopping combined with writing strongly about current emotional issues to become one of the most read, and talked about, writers on the web. Conservative Republicans seem to worship her, and I've noticed many male liberal Democrats let her get away with stuff they normally wouldn't.

Good looks don't automatically make someone right, being a Republican doesn't automaticaly make a politician a conservative (unless pretending gets them ahead), and blind-loyalty to parties (either side) is scary.

We also appreciate the traffic jams at Outside The Beltway. They have a couple of interesting posts.

In his relentless attempt at winning the most obnoxious blogger of the year award, Steve Verdon over at OTB shall we we say "disrespectfully disagrees" with Michelle Malkin about the abortion pill, RU-486. Calling Michelle Malkin on Her Nonsense A...

From what I've read about the pharmacology and what I know about the immunoendocrinology, I don't believe that anyone at this time ...

So, you’re right… but don’t start patting yourself on the back, because you haven’t really solved anything.

Well I'm not going to tolerate junk statistics even if it is to serve a loftier goal. That is simply lying.

Taking into consideration an 80% fetus mortality rate among those who have taken RU-486, I’d say the 368,000 lives lost due to this abortion process make this a very dangerous drug indeed.

Goal post moving is boring and in this case dishonest.

Michelle should have argued on the grounds above, not some cocked-up stats that don't make the grade.

The primary "side effect" of RU-486 and all other forms of easy-to-utilize birth control, as outlined in Frank Fukuyama's The Great Disruption is "family dissolution." It's not minor, but it's social and cultural rather than medical. Perhaps Michelle is attempting to take a shortcut by suggesting that it's a medical threat, but the fact is that the social/cultural impact is vastly more dire, and essentially irreversible until we significantly change our institutions.

So, you're right... but don't start patting yourself on the back, because you haven't really solved anything.

Michelle Malkin and Bill of INDC Journal have been discussing the latest FDA investigation into RU-486. This latest public health advisory by the FDA is the result of four deaths of California of women who took RU-486 for a medical

Some wit in our class observed that the fellow probably wasn't suing for specific performance. (Lawyer joke.)

They have been sued for "wrongful life" by children who were intended to have been aborted, too, most often in the case of genetic defects that led to miserable quality of life of the survivor.

Frankly, I don't see the big moral step being taken with RU-486. Birth control pills (the ordinary kind) work by preventing a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus by making conditions in the uterus unfavorable to implantation. RU-486 works by changing those conditions before, at, or immediately after implantation. We took the step away from "life begins at conception" forty years go.