The pro-choice faction in today’s abortion debate argues that a woman’s right to choose overrides all other considerations and must be fulfilled without restriction. In theory, then, the high abortion rates in black and other minority communities are a consequence of the free choice of individual women. But are they? Writing in the New York Times, Ross Douthat notes that the complex historical links between abortion and the eugenicist movements of the 20th century have never been wholly severed. Beneath the comforting rhetoric of female equality and individual choice, Douthat suggests that something more than just emancipation may be at work.
France is in the Crosshairs, but the Target is Western Civilization
Theodore Dalrymple in Law & Liberty crystallizes the recent riots in France to a simple equation: “Whole generations have been taught and come to accept that Western civilization consists of slavery, exploitation, and massacre.” Tearing it all down – not merely reforming it – is therefore not just understandable but desirable. Dalrymple disposes of the delusional trope that these are “student” protests, noting the preponderance of Muslim migrants committing the mayhem.
For a luminous glimpse into the singular civilizational achievements the rioters would tear down, read this C2C article by Patrick Keeney.
