Over at Say Anything, Rob has a post commenting on the strange disconnect between pro-choice beliefs about abortion and those same activists’ beliefs about choice in, well, everything else. I’ve commented about that before, in the context of the bizarre disconnect between believing a woman has the right to choose with respect to an act that (potentially, depending on your definition of “person”) kills another person, but not with respect to a disease that effects only her and those she chooses to be intimate with.

I fully accept that it’s possible to believe either of these things in good faith, but to believe them both seems incongruous to me. It’s an interesting disconnect, and I occasionally have to wonder if Rob isn’t right — the only “choice” that’s really being valued here is the choice to be able to enjoy their lives without facing that their actions sometimes have consequences.