Kevin Williamson and a Painful Truth

National Review Online roving correspondent Kevin Williamson recently tweeted an uncomfortable opinion about the status of post-abortive women.  He feels they should be prosecuted for first-degree murder.  His recommended instrument of justice is a bit archaic for our times, but I will leave that aside for now. I wholeheartedly agree with Mr. Williamson, even though I do not possess any formal education in ex post facto law, retributive justice, or even the organization and gradation of moral theories.  I agree because I had an abortion.  That’s all I need to know. Curiously, I found Mr. Williamson’s comment on a website where the adjacent headline read, “El Salvadoran Mother Charged for Having an Abortion-But Evidence Suggests She Murdered Her Baby.” What? Mr. Williamson is picking up the pro-life argument exactly where it keeps stalling out: at the place that occupies the next logical step in the sequence.  Where the...(Read Full Post)