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.
Yay Brexit!
Brendan O’Neill in Spiked enthuses that Brexit is superior to just about anything else in the world. “There should be street parties” on the 10th anniversary of the popular vote to withdraw from the EU, he writes. “Let the bells peal for that momentous day when in our millions we said No to globalism.” The continuing surfeit of saboteurs and naysayers among Britain’s “idiot elites”, O’Neill snorts, are gripped by Brexit Derangement Syndrome.
