Thursday, November 05, 2009

Re: Is Abortion Pro-Family?   [Mark Steyn]

Maggie writes: "I am always struck by how unempirical the Left is." Very true. And how sad that it should be Derb, of all people, who has to be reminded of this. The notion that abortion is pro-family because it reduces single motherhood is hard to reconcile with the fact that demographic groups with the highest rates of abortion — such as, say, the African-American community — also have the highest rates of single-parent households.

And, even if that were not the case, abortion as a means of reducing single motherhood would not be pro-family, unless by "pro-family" you mean not only that there would be fewer dysfunctional families but fewer families, period. It would be what one might call the European solution, whose consequences Lord Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the British Commonwealth, noted in his speech last night.

11/05 04:01 PMShare