Readers Blog: Stalinist tactics used in debate on abortion

Last week a former master of the Coombe Hospital, Prof Chris Fitzpatrick, complained that people are “firmly pro-choice or pro-life; nobody seems to live in the space in between”.

This is a classic Hegelian dialectic; a tactic employed by Stalin no less: The revolutionaries try

to create two “extremists” and then attempt to portray themselves as the sane voice of reason looking for the rational middle ground.