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The Atlantic Fires Kevin Williamson Who Wants Women Executed

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After 14 days, one column, and a few damning resurfaced podcast clips calling for the mass lynching of women who terminate their pregnancies, The Atlantic has decided to abort Kevin D. Williamson’s contract. The professional abortion came after people more vigilant than the decision makers at The Atlantic discovered that (among other things) Williamson’s (perfectly public) views on the procedure of abortion were so very pro-life that he thinks all women who have them should be executed.

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