Anti-Pro-Life Censorship or Callous Extremist? 4 Views on The Atlantic Firing Kevin Williamson
Ross Douthat
New York Times columnist Ross Douthat argued that there was plenty of extremism on the pro-choice side that "mirrored" the "callous" views of Williamson.
To illustrate, Douthat noted the extreme views of Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus, who recently penned two op-eds defending late term abortions for babies who tested positive for Down syndrome.
While personally divided on the actual firing itself, Douthat said in his column that "my pro-choice friends endorsing Williamson's sacking can't see that his extremism is mirrored in their own."
This pro-choice extremism was described as a system that "advocates for abortion at any stage of pregnancy, that hands philosophers who favor forms of euthanasia and infanticide prestigious chairs at major universities, that is at best mildly troubled by the quietus of the depressed and disabled in Belgium or the near-eradication of Down syndrome in Iceland or the gendercide that abortion brought to Asia, that increasingly accepts unblinking a world where human beings can be commodified and vivisected so long as they're in embryonic form."
