The Literacy Front

Nick Gillespie notes that among Tom Delay's many faults, apparently, is not knowing what "to dismember" means. Nick also makes a profound point about the dubious nature of supposedly metaphysically-enshrined pro-life axioms:

When it comes to these sorts of breakthroughs (IVF, stem cells), we're first and foremost pragmatists. If these technologies pan out and offer great advances to the living, even hard-core pro-lifers will cook up after-the-fact rationalizations for why they are just no matter what.

Quite right. Very few pro-lifers really think that abortion=murder---if they did, it would unconscionable for them not to be in open rebellion against the government---and even fewer think that contraception=abortion.