Clayton: Abortion, Viagra Not Equal

If the government decided that Viagra wasn’t necessary (which strictly speaking, it isn’t), and decided that it shouldn’t be covered, you would not get any argument from me. But the bigger issue here is Boxer’s misunderstanding of how analogies work. Boxer clearly doesn’t understand that the moral discomfort that most Americans have with abortion isn’t about sex; it’s about killing what is going to be, in a very short time, a human being. And this is analogous to Viagra in what way?/ Clayton Cramer . More here .

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Question: What do you make of U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer’s comment, comparing an effort to limit women’s access to abortion to restricting men’s access to Viagra.