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.
A Spite That Knows No Bounds
Gratingly awful global scold Greta Thunberg’s latest stunt is to turn on her own motherland. Sweden has been very good to her, but the former social-democratic paradise’s mugging by the realities of uncontrolled immigration do not sit well with the keffiyeh-clad rabblerouser. “For years, Sweden took more asylum seekers per capita than any other country in Europe,” writes Fredrik Karrholm in The Spectator. “Now asylum numbers have fallen to their lowest level since 1985.”
