After Jonah Goldberg teed the story up, Michael Gerson nails it in the Washington Post today (What in hell am I doing in bed with these guys? I don't know, I just like it, they're not scrawny like my usual bedfellows, but a little doughy, well-fed):
It is more likely that Ginsburg is describing the attitude of some of
her own social class — that abortion is economically important to a
"woman of means" and useful in reducing the number of social
undesirables. Neither judge nor journalist apparently found this
attitude exceptional; there was no follow-up question.
I agree. This is all about elitism. And for me this is a Jewish struggle. Exceptionalism, the creed of my family growing up, of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and I venture journalist Emily Bazelon as well, must be interrogated. Notice I don't say, Thrown out. Interrogated.
