Whose Judgment Sucks?

It's one thing to say something to this effect:  "I disagree with you; here's why I stand where I do on the issue, rather than where you stand."

It's another thing to say something to this effect:  "I disagree with you; moreover, your judgment sucks:  No faithful Catholic in his or her right mind could agree with you." 

As I read it, Hadley Arkes's statement falls into the latter category, not the former.  (Arkes says of Kmiec and Kaveny that they have "a scheme of judgment with no sense of moral weighting or discrimination.")

Arkes seems to me to discount the complexity of the issue--the issue being, what public policy regarding abortion is optimal for us in the United States, at this time, all things considered.  (I agree with Rick that this should be a question for state legislatures, not for the U.S. Supreme Court.)  It is, alas, a too familiar phenomenon:  one's intellectual and moral self-confidence preventing one from seeing the complexity of a moral, including a political-moral, issue.  Who among us has not been there?  As a Minnesota poet has written (and sung):  "I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now."