How's this for a syllogism:
Major premise: liberalised abortion has led to the death of a million human fetuses. Minor premise: worker shortages in the United States have led to waves of illegal immigration into the country. Conclusion: legalised abortion is to blame for an epidemic of illegal immigration into the United States.
Sound inane?
Well, the idiosyncratic Republican presidential candidate seems to think this assertion holds water. Read on...
Via Paul Krugman's Conscience of a Liberal blog at the New York Times, taken from CNN's Political Ticker blog:
"Sometimes we talk about why we're importing so many people in our workforce," the former Arkansas governor said. "It might be for the last 35 years, we have aborted more than a million people who would have been in our workforce had we not had the holocaust of liberalized abortion under a flawed supreme court ruling in 1973."
Where, and before what constituency, could such a ridiculous assertion be taken seriously?
Well, if you guessed the Family Research Council's Values Voter Summit held this weekend in Washington, you'd be correct.
Reason, it seems, is not a conservative Christian value.
