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October 9, 2014
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)