Re: Abortion in Europe and US

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Katha Pollitt wrote:

> ps.In trying to understand the differences between popular attitudes
> toward abortion here and in Europe, i think one can't stress enough the
> Puritanism and religious mania that has been a persistent feature of
> American culture since the seventeenth century. It isn't just on
> abortion that this shows up -- think of creationism.  As Stephen jay
> gould pointed out in TIME, there is no other Western country where
> teaching evolution is controversial.

And as this week's Economist (I hate to find myself quoting The
Economist, sorry) points out, the U.S. is about the most socially
Darwinist country on earth. Ok for social policy, but not for
evolution!

Doug