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Yearning for the 'good old days' at The Corner:

Where?s Dad? Not the ?fathers? of these unfortunate pre-borns, but the fathers of these pregnant girls. Where, in other words, is the shotgun?
Back in the day when birth control and abortion weren?t readily available to high-school kids, fathers were pretty good deterrents to pregnancy. Boys knew they?d have kneecap problems if they got daddy?s little girl pregnant. If they were lucky, they?d be married by the morning after.
Girls, meanwhile, were less likely to risk pregnancy because alternatives to motherhood were few, adoption being the most likely.
It wasn?t a foolproof system, clearly, but the specter of lifelong consequences, combined with societal and parental disapproval, helped keep the illegitimate birthrate down.

Yup. Them sure was better times...

The scary question after District of Columbia v. Heller, however, is how many U.S. Supreme Court Justices might agree with that sentiment?

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Full post as published by Wise Law Blog on June 28, 2008 (boomark / email).