I find it interesting that Juan Cole can't seem to admit that the religious right is against abortion because it considers it to be murder. Rather he believes that it is all about trying to control other people's bodies. The fact that their (the pro-lifers') position on the Schiavo case is more consistent with a belief that people should be preserved even if they are apparently not sentient than with a desire for men to control women is explained by saying that the pro-lifers "feminized" Michael Schiavo. So let's add a bunch of theories to explain the Schiavo case so that we can put abortion into our neat little women-against-men paradigm, shall we?
Here's an idea. Perhaps the pro-lifers really think that abortion is murder, eh? And they think that Terri Schiavo was really alive and should not have been starved. Whether you agree or disagree with pro-lifers values, to add complexity when it is unnecessary strikes me as a major violation of Occam's razor.
Also, his arguments that some pro-lifers don't even care if the life of the mother is in danger ignores the fact that most pro-lifers don't take such a position.
In short, Mr. Cole is wrong.
That is all.
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