An email: “In Stan’s attack, I loved this part: ‘an organization bent on terrorizing and demonizing pregnant women.’ Can you really use someone’s pregnancy as a reservoir of sympathy and good feeling when you’re using that sympathy to defend their termination of the pregnancy? It seems analogous to the parent-murderer who asks for leniency because he’s an orphan.”

I thought about that, but decided not to make a remark similar to my correspondent’s on the theory that she may have had in mind a pregnant woman visiting, say, Planned Parenthood for some other purpose and encountering “demonizing” protestors. Maybe that construction is too charitable. “Lest I be misunderstood here, I’m not for “demonizing” women even if they are seeking abortions.)