Blinding Us With Science

By Jonah Goldberg

"For a generation, American politics has largely been frozen in place when it comes to so-called 'reproductive issues.' Abortion has been the keystone holding up a number of related positions, from euthanasia to embryonic stem cell research, with self-described pro-lifers and pro-choicers locked in a permanent cold war.

But the light of science is melting the permafrost beneath them, making abortion seem like a 20th-century argument about feminism whereas the argument in the 21st century will be about humanity itself - and whether science is the source of human values." Read on...