You can call me abortion obsessed (some of you have, perhaps rightly), but it will always be a mystery to me why liberal feminists in the U.S. cannot get upset about forced sterilization in Peru, coerced abortions in China. The U.N. Population Fund has a lot to answer for–but, for the most part, it’s only the pro-lifers who are the ones sounding the warning bells. Unfortunately that means the Left gets to portray congressional debates over UNFPA money (they’ll be a vote in the House on this today, as Tim mentioned yesterday) as just more attempts to make abortion illegal and unavailable throughout the globe. While I certainly wouldn’t shed a tear at the prospect, women’s groups show their colors again and again when they gloss over these kinds of human-rights violations, and America’s ability to influence their end. (See here and here and here and here for some background.)
KL
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Kathryn Jean Lopez is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and the religion editor of National Review. Sign up for her weekly newsletter here. She is the author of A Year with the Mystics: Visionary Wisdom for Daily Living.
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