{"id":3668,"date":"2021-08-06T07:42:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T11:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3668"},"modified":"2021-08-06T07:42:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T11:42:31","slug":"the-end-justifying-the-means-in-hillsdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3668","title":{"rendered":"The End Justifying the Means in Hillsdale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/JPA303.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"413\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/JPA303.jpg\" alt=\"The End Justifying the Means in Hillsdale\" class=\"wp-image-3669\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/JPA303.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/JPA303-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michiganradio.org\/post\/hillsdale-city-council-considering-ordinance-ban-performing-abortions-within-city-limits\">Michigan Radio ran a story this week<\/a>\u00a0where the city council\u00a0of Hillsdale, Michigan is considering an ordinance that would\u00a0basically criminalize anything related to having an abortion within the city limits. Obviously any story about abortions comes packed with visceral feelings and opinions. But what struck me about this particular story was\u00a0its nuances and complexities (and how it was told).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I encourage you to read the whole article, but briefly, the wife of a Hillsdale city council member asked a Texas-based pastor to come to town to promote his &#8220;Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn&#8221; initiative. She collected signatures of support and brought it up in the public comment portion of a meeting this week. Hillsdale is famously a conservative town, so it was hard to find opposition to the idea itself, but there was plenty of concerns about how it was executed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What I found most interesting&nbsp;was&nbsp;watching&nbsp;a community&nbsp;determine how far it is willing to go&nbsp;for an end to justify the means. Is it okay to skirt rules, bypass convention, take some shortcuts? And if so, then how about rigging the game, locking down the opposition, declaring rule by fiat? Would that be okay, too? It will be interesting to see how&nbsp;all this plays out in Hillsdale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan Radio ran a story this week\u00a0where the city council\u00a0of Hillsdale, Michigan is considering an ordinance that would\u00a0basically criminalize anything related to having an abortion within the city limits. Obviously any story about abortions comes packed with visceral feelings and opinions. But what struck me about this particular story was\u00a0its nuances and complexities (and how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon","category-michiganpress-org","category-michiganradio-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3670,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3668\/revisions\/3670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}