The termination of reason and of logic

THE two earliest casualties of abortion debates are reason and logic.

This has proved to be the case again, in recent days, as the temperature goes up in advance of legislation.

Otherwise sane and rational people lurch into another gear. Those who were never sane in the first instance muster a new pep in their step, now that they have been joined, in their lonely outpost, by legions who otherwise would sail on by.