Choosing Love & Making Life by David Mills

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Choosing Love & Making Life

Sex, Love, Marriage & the Culture of Death
by David Mills

I do not think many of those who argue so hard for abortion really like the idea of killing the unborn, though there are some, particularly among the sad, suffering fringes of radical feminism, whose hatred of life is so deep that it drives them to something near nihilism. The culture of death begins not in a love of death but in a culture of pseudo-life: in the desire for life and its fruits, but life sought in the wrong ways and usually with the wrong people.

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David Mills has been editor of Touchstone and executive editor of First Things.

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