Letters

Babies Are Not Livestock

Mary Eberstadt has used the occasion of the horrific Planned Parenthood videos to talk about animal rights, making the case to pro-abortion and pro-animal-rights National Review readers that those two positions are incompatible (“No Video, Please; We’re Killing Something,” August 24). Given that the number of conservatives who hold both positions is vanishingly small, her larger goal must surely be to convince pro-lifers that they can’t oppose abortion without a comparable repugnance toward modern livestock farming. With predictable slurs about “Big Farm” and well-worn banalities about drones bravely venturing over a wasteland of industrial farms (you can learn just as much about “industrial” farming from Google Maps), Eberstadt consigns the thousands of family farmers who raise animals in climate-controlled buildings to the same circle of hell as abortion mills.