The right to life vs. the right to lie: deceit just isn't nice, even when it's Trump opponents who do it

I take it back. Doug Jones's Senate victory was not a victory for decency, although Roy Moore's defeat was.

I was misled by the moderator of a pro-McMullin group on Facebook into believing that Jones was pro-life. She actually used that term. Here is Jones's actual position: "To be clear, I fully support a woman's freedom to choose to what happens to her own body. That is an intensely, intensely personal decision that only she, in consultation with her god, her doctor, her partner or family, that's her choice."

Which, of course, begs the question. The morally nihilist cliche to the contrary, abortion is not about "a woman's right to choose what happens to her own body." That choice is made in the bedroom. Unless we're talking about rape, the choice to abort is solely the choice to tear someone else's body limb from limb. It is no more a matter of personal choice than the wrongful taking of anybody else's life.

The person in question has no problem criticizing Trump for his sexual predation and lies. Nor should she. But I'm disappointed that she doesn't see that killing somebody is worse than lying to them, and even less a matter of personal preference.

Or that misrepresenting Jones's position as being "pro-life" is itself telling a lie as egregious as any of Trump's.