Anna Quindlen talks about an interesting film bobbing around YouTube wherein the filmmakers asked a crowd of anti-abortion protesters what they think the punishment should be for having an abortion. Naturally, most protesters think doctors should be fined, jailed, or, I assume, executed... but what about those fetus-eviscerating slatterns? Nobody, especially politicians, seems to want to commit to saying they'd lock up or liquidate the baby mommas. Oh, maybe some hypothetical hairy-legged lesbian who got preggers just so she could have a recreational abortion, but what about the 16-year-old knocked up by her brother, or the housewife who was raped in the shopping mall parking lot? Standard response: "Duhhhhhhh..."

For the sake of argument (I should mention, I've only watched a little bit of the film so far), it appears the filmmakers concentrate on the typical north Illinoisian protester—everyday, essentially normal fundies and Catholics (like some of my relatives) who so very much want to save the babies, rather than militant types who would be fine with capping doctors as they arrived at the clinic. Still, I always wondered what the militants planned to do with all those mamas. Given their druthers, they'd probably smuggle future moms to secret birthing camps or something like, put them to work in the kitchens after birth, and raise their kids under the teachings of machine-gun-toting Christ. But, again, it seems like it never comes up. Anyone here hear differently?