women’s reproductive choices. Like voting rights, abortion is a very difficult problem. How can every American be treated fairly when a woman’s body is at odds with a fetus’s life? Likewise, how can southern minorities be protected and—at the same time—local governments empowered? As we’ll explore further in Chapter 7, anyone who thinks there are easy answers to these hard questions isn’t grasping their complexity. The partisans look foolish in their zeal.
