At Mark Steyn's excellent web site, he features a column called "Request of the Week." Last week he received this note from a fan living in Stanchel on Prince Edward Island:Dear Mark,
I would love to re-read a piece on abortion that appeared in The National Post sometime in 2001 or 2002. I can't recall the title, but it mentioned a 17 year-old pregnant waitress and how society's response should be to leave a good tip - not bemoan the "punishment" of a baby. In this age of abortion gift-certificates and Morgentaler's Order of Canada, thankfully you do not consider discussion of this issue "above your pay grade".
Love your writing and dedication to free speech!
Steyn responded, "Okay, here it comes. This was one of the first columns in which I began, tentatively, to address the demographic issue - the self-extinction of the civilization that built the modern world. Whatever one feels about "a woman's right to choose", the state's interest (and especially the big-spending state's) is in natalism."
And he then printed the requested column, a truly exceptional one from The National Post of January 27th, 2003. It's called "Abortion and the State" and it's right here.
