choice-- for me but not thee

Of course, we see this sort of hypocrisy in education all the time: mostly Democrats who exercise school choice and love all sorts of government intervention (especially on behalf of the poor)-- but who bow to teachers' unions and oppose school choice for others.

Here's Michael Gerson at TownHall.com on "pro-choicers" who want to mandate that some people evade their conscience to be required to provide abortion services. Priceless!

There is a common thread running through President Obama's pro-choice agenda: the coercion of those who disagree with it.

Obama has begun providing federal funds for international groups that promote or perform abortions overseas. He has moved to weaken conscience protections for health care professionals....

It is the incurable itch of pro-choice activists to compel everyone's complicity in their agenda. Somehow getting "politics out of science" translates into taxpayer funding for embryo experimentation. "Choice" becomes a demand on doctors and nurses to violate their deepest beliefs or face discrimination....

If developing life is merely protoplasmic rubbish, it has the legal claims of a cyst or a toenail. But if a politician believes life is sacred, the destruction of more than a million lives a year cannot be merely one issue among many.

"Sacred" is a religious argument-- incoherently embraced by some in the pro-choice gang. Beyond that, we know what the science says about when life begins-- but of course, pro-choicers are flat-earthers on that or just want to ignore science conveniently.