[GraniteStateConservative]

I'm still struck by the creativity involved in using farm animals to depict the Soviet Union.

[Tribune7]

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[machman]

My candidate for the role would be the pro-life English writer George Orwell (1903-1950). To be sure, Orwell is an unorthodox pick. He is best known as a prescient critic of Communism, as in Animal Farm (1945) and 1984 (1949), and imperialism, as in Burmese Days (1934) and the essay "Shooting an Elephant" (1936). He was also a Socialist, as he made clear in The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia (1937). And yet Orwell consistently opposed abortion, abhorring the argument that it ought to be a private decision. As he wrote in the 1944 essay "The English People," "In England of the last thirty years, it has seemed all too natural?that abortion, theoretically illegal, should be looked on as a mere peccadillo."

My candidate would be science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. Famous for the books that turned into the movies Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, and many others. His famous short story, "The Pre-Persons", sums up his non-religious pro-life views quite nicely.

[Sloth]

Interesting article, thanks for posting.

[Ronaldus Magnus]

Great article.