14. As it happens, the stout-hearted @ed_kilgore was able to interview Williamson for New York, but not with fruitful results:http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/04/williamson-wont-answer-questions-about-abortion-punishment.html …
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@ed_kilgore repeatedly asks Williamson a simple & fair question: what do you think punishment for abortion should be. Williamson repeatedly refuses to answer. That's very strange from a man who also has talked about hanging as a fit punishment for abortion5 replies 57 retweets 489 likesShow this thread -
16. To recap. Williamson: women who have abortions should be hanged. Sane people: WTF dude. W: It was just a provocation. SP. Um, ok. W on friendly podcast: Yeah, hanging is just logical but I don't like capital punishment SP: What should punishment be? W: I won't say.
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17. It's very strange. Williamson actually says abortion is "in some ways it's worse than your typical murder." If so, shouldn't he be willing to spell out (not just as a "trollish and hostile" tweet) how something worse than murder should be punished.
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18. Williamson says his suggestion of hanging not "a public-policy recommendation." That's true. It's not an idea or a policy, but an expression of an emotion and not a credible one: a desire to punish women.
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19. Cards on the table: I am strongly pro-choice. But I accept that many anti-abortion people are motivated by a genuine concern for fetal personhood & rights. Not Williamson, though. Something else is at work.
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Jeet Heer Retweeted Dan McLaughlin
20. If you go by Williamson's writings on abortion in National Review & words of his friends, this is a personal issue because Williamson sees himself as abortion survivor:https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/981984624871124992 …
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Dan McLaughlinVerified account @baseballcrankThis is precisely why this is asymmetrical. Kevin feels especially strongly about this issue b/c he's the sort of person who could - maybe would - have been aborted after 1973. They extend no similar empathy to how this affects *him* personally. https://twitter.com/robbysoave/status/981978511140360193 …Show this thread10 replies 20 retweets 280 likesShow this thread -
21. Here's the basic argument from Williamson's friends: Williamson is a former fetus & abortion survivor so he feels passionate about issue. It's self-defence! That's why he talks about hanging women.
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22. I have to confess, I find the argument about being an abortion survivor puzzling on a metaphysical level. It doesn't account for the radical contingency of being.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Yeah, this part of the argument is genuinely baffling to me. Kevin Williamson does not get special credit for once having been a fetus. It’s actually pretty common to have been a fetus
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