>"Given the choice between recognition of basic civil rights (same sex marriage, reproductive rights)" It's funny that you lump those two together. Public opin

>"Given the choice between recognition of basic civil rights (same sex marriage, reproductive rights)" It's funny that you lump those two together. Public opinion has been moving quickly in favor of gay marriage, but the trench warfare over abortion is the same as it always was. One NRO writer claims the country has gotten more more pro-life and more pro-gay over the last 30 years, and that sounds correct given my memory of the last time I found raw stats. More female voters identify as pro-life than pro-choice last time I checked, though you wouldn't know it in blue states. Personally, I have too much libertarian in me to call myself pro-life. But I find that the left lacks intellectual honesty and serious engagement with the stance of the other side whenever I hear their rhetoric. They seem to convince through loud shouting and calling their opponents names, or labeling their own positions "basic civil rights". Killing a human fetus may not be "murder" but it surely carries some moral weight. And no middle ground position will be stable without recognition of that.