The Washington Post’s Outrageous Comparison of Pro-Life Americans to the Khmer Rouge

David Von Drehle, deputy opinion editor and columnist at the Washington Post, has published an essay eviscerating what he derides as the “perverse zealotry” of his fellow citizens who happen to have pro-life convictions. Here’s an excerpt from the beginning of his piece:

After his outrageous comparison of pro-life Americans to the Khmer Rouge — the sadistic communist regime that presided over the Cambodian genocide, during which it killed nearly 25 percent of Cambodia’s population in less than four years — Von Drehle proceeds to recount his family’s own unsuccessful attempts to conceive children through in vitro fertilization.