What Lies Beyond Fanaticism

An article in the Journal First Things caught my attention recently. I think I was led to this article through the blog Between Two Worlds.

What caught my attention in this article on Barak Obama and abortion is not the facts of Obama's pro-abortion stance, but this paragraph, which I thought sums up the position that the pro-life, anti-abortion stance is dealing with or will be dealing with. There are less and less arguments being raised, but more often it comes down to presuppositions. People have begun to assume the pro-abortion stance, not reasonably think and argue their way to it.

Here's the paragraph:

On abortion, Obama is the complete man, his support so ingrained that even his carefully controlled public speaking can't help revealing it. He's not a fanatic about abortion; he's what lies beyond fanaticism. He's the end product of hard-line support for abortion: a man for whom the very question of abortion seems unreal. The opponents of abortion are, for Obama, not to be compromised with or even fought with, in a certain sense. They are, rather, to be explained away as a sociological phenomenon—their pro-life view something that will wither away as they gradually come to understand the true causes of the economic and social bitterness they have, in their undereducated and intolerant way, attached to abortion.

Here's the whole article: Abortion After Obama.