“...Over the years, I’ve heard (and perpetrated, I confess) some imaginative definitions of the “seamless garment,” or “consistent ethic of life.” It’s a matter of identifying a common principle that can be shown to underlie and unite various causes — the abolition of abortion, of euthanasia, of the death penalty, of you name it — that most people would say are disparate and unrelated. How heightened border security might be of a piece with protecting unborn children is less intuitively obvious than most such hypothetical linkages I’ve encountered...”
This was as far as I could read. Someone called the NRO writing style pompous or pretentious. Pendantic can be added along with muddying the water to appear deep!
>How heightened border security might be of a piece with protecting unborn children is less intuitively obvious than most such hypothetical linkages I’ve encountered...”
I could ‘splain it to him. Needing cheap labor from Mexico is BECAUSE of the young US population lost to abortion. We can’t be bothered having and raising our own kids.
Anyone who doesn’t get that does not belong in any purportedly intellectual pursuit.