This is one of those issues which just makes me tired every time it rears its head, so instead of burning energy writing up a big post on it I just blurted out some thoughts on Twitter. And people seemed to like them! So for posterity:
https://twitter.com/bootstheory/status/602954659364413441
https://twitter.com/bootstheory/status/602955191374127104
https://twitter.com/bootstheory/status/602955554982465537
https://twitter.com/bootstheory/status/602955732921655296
(I’ve only copied every second one since I cannot find how to stop them displaying the previous tweet with each one!)
Later this week: a post on abortion which I DID have the energy to write.
Stephanie Rodgers 
What do you reckon?