An e-mail:

[Yuval’s] points are (as usual) very well made, and I couldn’t be happier about this breakthrough; yet I remain uneasy.
We came very, very close to the edge of the abyss. Our leaders were eager to commodify human conception in a charnel house for spare parts, and were stopped just short of that horror by one key man’s conviction. What is America, when 432 votes in Florida is the margin of our humanity?