He writes the weekly column "One Last Thing" in the Currents section of the Sunday Inquirer.
Last Monday marked the 34th anniversary of a national tragedy - the Supreme Court's verdict in Roe v. Wade, which enshrined abortion as a constitutional right. It's easy, of course, for antiabortion nutcases (like me) to see Roe as a gruesome event. For us Manichean types, abortion is murder, case closed.
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