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The Voice of the Self-Appointed Keeper of the Virtues: Abort Black Babies to Reduce Crime

William Bennett, well-known reaction formation, strikes again.  (The thesis he mangles, by the way, was first put forward by Chicago economist Steven Levitt and law professor John Donohue, now of Yale; the linked discussion of Bennett’s proposal for racial genocide mentions only Levitt.)  Of course, Mr. Bennett doesn’t ultimately endorse racial genocide; after all, abortion is immoral!

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