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In the last few minutes of the program, Todd Simmons showed his true colors--and it was not a pleasant sight. Unable to answer Maggie Gallagher's principled defense of the institution of real--i.e. heterosexual--marriage, he resorted to a personal attack on the messenger and thereby lost the debate.

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Your guest mentioned the words 'population policy', shorthand for government coercion in the area of whether or not people choose to have babies. Now let us suppose that some generous couple chooses to have a large family. Will the 'population policy' penalize them? This would seem to violate elementary notions of equal justice. If push comes to shove, would such a 'population policy' come to resemble that in China, where untold numbers of women are forced to have abortions? Or does 'saving the planet' justify just about anything the would-be saviors want to do?

Just wondering.

Bob Harper

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