Kathryn below characterizes Hillary’s abortion statements as spin. Few would doubt it. But let me make one point: sincerity can be over-rated in politics. A politician’s words matter and can change the debate even if he/she doesn’t mean them. My favorite example: Bill Clinton never had any intention of “ending welfare as we know it.” But his constant repetition of the phrase changed the realm of the possible in welfare policy and made something like the end of welfare as we knew it plausible. Let’s hope Hillary’s–empty, calculated, whatever–words some day have the same unintended effect on the abortion debate.