In the last presidential candidate debate last week, John McCain and Barrack Obama were asked about their positions on abortion. The clilp below is quite extraordinary for the way McCain summarily dismisses women by using air quotes. AIR. QUOTES.

By being so dismissive of the health of the mother in the issue of abortion, McCain has infuriated not just pro-choicers but women everywhere, women who have lost babies through miscarriage or who had to make the devastating decision to end a pregnancy in order to save their own lives……. The blog Dooce pointed to this post and this post which articulate this devastation far better than I have……