I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me.

This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated.

A pro-choice advocate sees abortion as a decision to be made in accordance with the best scientific opinion as to when the beginning of life, as we know it, occurs.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me.

The first thing to ask when writing a sentence is 'What am I trying to do?'

Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved.