Commentary: Political epidemiology, republican presidents and dog food

摘要

Political partisans in the USA, as elsewhere, regularly remind their less motivated compatriots that elections have consequences. Much law, moreover, protects the right to say or print virtually anything to motivate political participation. This combination often leads to lurid claims by advocates that their opposition embraces policies that kill the most innocent and vulnerable among us. Republican politicians, for example, regularly stiffen the backs of their supporters by pledging, if elected, to protect the innocent by curtailing a woman's right to abortion.