A glimpse of what today's conservative really is
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This abortion opponent wants to execute women who have abortions
How strange it is that at the very moment when the left is routing the right in the culture war, the battle over abortion seems more polarized than ever.
On one side, supporters of abortion rights increasingly (and unconvincingly) deny that having an abortion is a moral issue at all — that terminating a pregnancy is nothing to be ashamed of, and maybe evensomething to be proud of.
And on the other side, there is, well, Kevin D. Williamson. A writer for National Review, Williamson likes to be the guy who will brashly express the crudest (and sometimes cruelest) version of his own team's deepest ideological commitments. Want an up-is-down revisionist take on American history that portrays the Republican Party as a far-greater champion of civil rights than the Democrats? Williamson's your man. Looking for someone to mock a transgendered person pictured on the cover of Time magazine? Williamson will do it with unapologetic relish.
But none of that compares to what we got from Williamson earlier this week, when he took to Twitter todeclare that he thinks women who have had abortions deserve to be executed for their actions. And not just executed in any old way, or by lethal injection, which is the standard in the 32 states that permit the death penalty. No, Williamson thinks women who have had abortions — along with the doctors, nurses, and hospital staff involved in the procedure — deserve to face death by hanging.
How strange it is that at the very moment when the left is routing the right in the culture war, the battle over abortion seems more polarized than ever.
On one side, supporters of abortion rights increasingly (and unconvincingly) deny that having an abortion is a moral issue at all — that terminating a pregnancy is nothing to be ashamed of, and maybe evensomething to be proud of.
And on the other side, there is, well, Kevin D. Williamson. A writer for National Review, Williamson likes to be the guy who will brashly express the crudest (and sometimes cruelest) version of his own team's deepest ideological commitments. Want an up-is-down revisionist take on American history that portrays the Republican Party as a far-greater champion of civil rights than the Democrats? Williamson's your man. Looking for someone to mock a transgendered person pictured on the cover of Time magazine? Williamson will do it with unapologetic relish.
But none of that compares to what we got from Williamson earlier this week, when he took to Twitter todeclare that he thinks women who have had abortions deserve to be executed for their actions. And not just executed in any old way, or by lethal injection, which is the standard in the 32 states that permit the death penalty. No, Williamson thinks women who have had abortions — along with the doctors, nurses, and hospital staff involved in the procedure — deserve to face death by hanging.
That's what you get when folks are given "too much for free"... resentment that they were not give even more and sooner.
