What Pro-Life Groups Can Learn From Death Penalty Opponents
NPR ran a story about the difficulty state governments are having acquiring the drugs they need to execute criminals using lethal injection. No American pharmaceutical companies make the drugs, and the EU bans their sale to US authorities because capital punishment is illegal in the EU. The sensible choice would be for states to source the drugs from China, which executes more people than the US and harvests their organs to boot, but currently the quality of the drugs is below standard.
Perhaps the Pro-Life movement could learn from the EU and target the makers of equipment used in abortion. Companies are very sensitive to bad publicity, especially over sales that provide a tiny fraction of their profits, and it wouldn’t take much effort on the part of Pro-Life groups to make it more difficult for abortion clinics to buy or repair equipment.
As for the states, they can get by on firing squads, the gas chamber or the electric chair. Sure the condemned prisoners will suffer more but at least death penalty opponents will be able to sleep at night, at least until the Chinese pharmaceutical companies take over.
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