This abortion opponent wants to execute women who have abortions. Don't act so shocked.

Anti-abortion activists say the procedure amounts to the infliction of lethal violence against an innocent human being. So why wouldn't you execute the perpetrator?

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How strange it is that at the very moment when the left is routing the right in the culture war, the battle over abortion seems more polarized than ever.

On one side, supporters of abortion rights increasingly (and unconvincingly) deny that having an abortion is a moral issue at all — that terminating a pregnancy is nothing to be ashamed of, and maybe even something to be proud of.

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Damon Linker

Damon Linker is a senior correspondent at TheWeek.com. He is also a former contributing editor at The New Republic and the author of The Theocons and The Religious Test.