National Review Writer: Women Who Have Abortions Should Be Hanged

National Review's Kevin Williamson via Twitter.
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Kevin Williamson, a correspondent for National Review, suggested Monday that women who have abortions should be hanged.

Williamson’s tweet came in a back-and-forth on twitter that started with Williamson’s piece criticizing a blog post by actress and director Lena Dunham on why women should vote.

The key part of the exchange was captured by Charles Johnson of the blog Little Green Footballs. Here is the exchange:

In August TPM noted that Williamson was the writer who defended a passage in a piece he wrote that described an African-American boy who Williamson estimated to be about 9 years old making the “gesture of primate territorial challenge.”

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