Are abortions decimating democratic voters?
This WSJ opinion piece piece by Larry Eastland that appeared in the WSJ argues that in the US Democrats lost the last presidential election because of missing voters — aborted foetuses from predominantly democratic mothers, foetuses which would have grown up to vote like their parents. I’ll accept that most children adopt their parents’ ways. Which also leads to my first objection to the premises of this article: It’s not so much that democrats have been having abortions; rather, it’s poor people, who tend to be democratic if they were to vote, which on the whole they do not. So if these missing children were to have been born, they would likely have been born to poor mothers — even poorer mothers — and they would have been less likely to vote when they turned 18 than the average person, and more likely to be in jail and unable to vote (remember that the legalization of abortion has been mooted as the main reason for the recent decline in the crime rate &mdash you can’t have it both wa
