In the recent debate that has resurfaced around abortion, one of the most common benchmarks for lawmakers is that once the baby is able to survive on his own outside of the womb, he should no longer be aborted. “So,” I think to myself, “around age 19 or so.” I work with teens and young adults, and have a whole herd of them grazing in my pantry every weekend. None of them seem capable of surviving on their own outside of the womb. One of my own daughters, God bless her, age 17, still hasn’t figured out how to use a can opener. In the unlikely event of a zombie apocalypse, she would die of starvation in a few hours because she couldn’t get a tin of soup open.
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