Life Links 6/12/08

Howard Dean needs an abortion reality check. He thinks (or at least thought) “it’s total nonsense” that public funding of abortion increases the abortion rate.


Rick Garnett parses Doug Kmiec’s most recent piece trying to explain his Obama backing.


Ryan Anderson and Christopher Tollefsen discuss Enhancement Biotechnology and Natural Law.


John Lott takes a look at the Big Picture Behind Abortion.

From the beginning of the abortion debate, those favoring abortion have pointed to the social costs of "unwanted" children who simply won't get the attention of "wanted" ones. But there is a trade-off that has long been neglected. Abortion may eliminate "unwanted" children, but it increases out-of-wedlock births and single parenthood. Unfortunately, the social consequences of illegitimacy dominated.