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This total lack of concern for the fate of millions of unborn children by the enforcers of the progressive agenda is, with a breath-taking contempt for logic, linked with an aggressive concern for children's rights once they have been permitted to be born. The political object, of course, changes at this point: the thrust is directed against the family, and one way in which the family can be devalued is by taking the child away from it. This aim lies behind the astonishing growth in what can only be called the Child Abuse Industry.

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