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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Apr 2018

    1. This @DouthatNYT column tries to do something valuable (distinguish between reasonable anti-abortion case & Williamsonian bloodthirsty desire for retribution) but it's far too short & raises more questions than it answers.

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      2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Apr 2018

        2. I'd like to see @DouthatNYT write a full magazine length piece spelling out what sort of legal regime he'd like to achieve his goal of no abortions without substantially curtailing existing civil rights.

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Apr 2018

        3. It's true, as Douthat points out, that in the pre-Roe v. Wade world, women who had abortions were almost never punished (as Williamson wants) like murderer. Williamson's position is not at all conservative but genuinely radical.

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      4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Apr 2018

        4. But the pre-Roe world was very different, had many more levers of paternalist control. And in meantime we've had decades of "abortion=murder" rhetoric. Williamson is the product of that.

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      5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Apr 2018

        5. I'm not sure Williamson can be dismissed as just outlier (although grant that most serious anti-abortion people wisely avoid talking about draconian punishments). He's the reductio ad absurdum of a common rhetoric.

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      6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Apr 2018

        6. Also, the historical record is that contemporary regimes that adopt anti-abortion policies do end up extremely punitive. El Salvador is a prime example.

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      7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Apr 2018

        7. Anyways, I'd like to see @DouthatNYT try & explain the mechanics of how his position works, perhaps ideally in debate with someone versed in the history & policies (like @KathaPollitt).

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      1. NancyWilliamsPainter‏ @painter_nancy 8 Apr 2018
        Replying to @HeerJeet @DouthatNYT

        Am I the only democrat who’s ever seen a sonogram?

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      2. Fire G-Decker‏ @geedeck 8 Apr 2018
        Replying to @HeerJeet @DouthatNYT

        Maybe all attempts at gendered health care control are unethical? I mean y'all are debating under what circumstances does a woman lose her rights and it seems like the correct answer is never.

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      2. Kristi Coulter‏Verified account @KristiCCoulter 8 Apr 2018
        Replying to @HeerJeet @DouthatNYT

        Your points are interesting and yet I’d rather he realize that as a man, his views on abortion are largely irrelevant and be publicly silent on the matter forevermore.

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      3. Doe Hill‏ @CoraBGodsey 8 Apr 2018
        Replying to @KristiCCoulter @HeerJeet @DouthatNYT

        I wish every single man on the planet would awake to that realisation - that your health and mine are really none of their business.

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