Garance Franke-Ruta: The Final Smackdown

The incomparable Digby gives Garance Franke-Ruta the coup de grâce:

Anyway, what jumped out at me when I read Garance's piece a few days ago was that it was the second time in the last month or so that I've heard the same startling rationale used in an argument about women's rights: that some women come to regret their decisions after they make them so all women must be protected from that possibility. The earlier version of this argument, of course, was in Anthony Kennedy's opinion in the "partial-birth" abortion case.

There is some good that can come out of this whole experience: it ought to give Franke-Ruta an intimate understanding of what it means to come to deeply regret a foolish indiscretion.