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It's painful to agree with Jonah Goldberg about anything, especially these days. But to be fair, this is something he has said since before he contracted Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Basically, John Yoo is wrong about abortion being a suitable issue to handle at the state level, because it's not reasonable for there to be a wide range of varying practices from state to state, on who/what is a human being. Yoo's position would leave it open for some states to allow slavery if they choose. He probably doesn't think it does, because slaves are "obviously" human beings or something, but by the standard he chooses, that "obvious" isn't really obvious.

You don't see anyone - any person - in the process of dying in "The Andromeda Strain" but you see many people who have already died, including in some rather bizarre circumstances.

What I occasionally end up pointing out though, is that they show in the movie - and I believe it was mentioned in the original novel as well - that Andromeda only "works" in a very limited range of blood pH. And while human blood normally falls within that range, the blood of mice, monkeys, and birds does not. So Andromeda would not have killed the test animals used in the lab. It surprises me that Crichton would have made that mistake, but maybe he didn't think that something like the Internet would allow people to discover it so easily.

kedavis (View Comment):

It’s painful to agree with Jonah Goldberg about anything, especially these days. But to be fair, this is something he has said since before he contracted Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Basically, John Yoo is wrong about abortion being a suitable issue to handle at the state level, because it’s not reasonable for there to be a wide range of varying practices from state to state, on who/what is a human being. Yoo’s position would leave it open for some states to allow slavery if they choose. He probably doesn’t think it does, because slaves are “obviously” human beings or something, but by the standard he chooses, that “obvious” isn’t really obvious.

States make mistakes, so do cities and towns and individuals, but that's the way the thing was designed and until we destroyed it, worked better than any society in history. Move it to the states, then gradually convince the pro abortion states to adopt better laws. They may not. Thats the price progress requires. We'll not outlaw it nationally at least not for one hell of a long time. That should be obvious. It's a republic and needs to remain one.

kedavis (View Comment):

It’s painful to agree with Jonah Goldberg about anything, especially these days. But to be fair, this is something he has said since before he contracted Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Basically, John Yoo is wrong about abortion being a suitable issue to handle at the state level, because it’s not reasonable for there to be a wide range of varying practices from state to state, on who/what is a human being. Yoo’s position would leave it open for some states to allow slavery if they choose. He probably doesn’t think it does, because slaves are “obviously” human beings or something, but by the standard he chooses, that “obvious” isn’t really obvious.

I Walton (View Comment):

States make mistakes, so do cities and towns and individuals, but that’s the way the thing was designed and until we destroyed it, worked better than any society in history. Move it to the states, then gradually convince the pro abortion states to adopt better laws. They may not. Thats the price progress requires. We’ll not outlaw it nationally at least not for one hell of a long time. That should be obvious. It’s a republic and needs to remain one.

And so your argument that states get to decide that an unborn human is not really a human, but states cannot decide that black humans are not really humans, is.... what? Federalism? That's pretty weak, and arguably even awful/evil.