by Matt Barr

I see it's time for another abortion post

Jane Galt is reading the current Atlantic cover story, The Day After Roe (call out quote: "If a national referendum were held the day after Roe fell, early-term abortions would likely be protected. But the Constitution doesn't provide for government by referendum." If the editorial board of The Atlantic were allowed to rule by fiat on the legality of abortion the day after Roe fell, early-term abortions would likely be protected, too, but the Constitution doesn't provide for that, either; the point escapes me) and notes a curious statistic: "62% of Americans support abortion in cases where the mother's mental health is endangered."

I bet if you polled Americans on whether they would support abortion in cases where the mother risked hyperemesis gravidarum, it'd get about 70 percent. The scarier-sounding the thing is that you ask whether abortion should be a solution to, the more support abortion will get, and endangered mental health sounds positively scary. "Presumably any woman who doesn't want to be pregnant will be made unhappy by it," Jane notes. Well, yeah.

Standard and bound to be ignored disclaimer: I support abortion rights.

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