Count me a member.

I've been meaning to blog about this for a while.  The book at the top of my wish list is Ramesh Ponnuru's The Party of Death:  The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life.  Ponnuru is a heavyweight among today's intellectuals, and I expect he argues case impeccably.  Reviews I've read so far suggest that he has written the definitive pro-life book.

Although the title specifically references the Democratic Party, the party he argues against is not limited to the political parties.  Ponnuru writes:

"The party of death should not be confused with a conventional political party: It has members (and opponents) within both of America's major political parties, although it is much stronger today among Democrats than Republicans. The party of death has unwitting allies, too, just as it always has. Someone who reluctantly supports euthanasia to spare the dying from further suffering surely does not intend to advance a comprehensive agenda to undermine the protection of human life. Yet that is the effect, however modest, of her support.

"We are sometimes told that polite conversation avoids the topics of sex, religion, and poltics. Some would say that a book with this subject matter breaks all three rules. They might go on to worry that calling one side of the debate a "party of death" will raise the temperature still further.

"We all have close friends and beloved relatives—I certainly do—who support legal abortion, or euthanasia, or both. Maybe we supported these things ourselves, once. I did. Maybe some readers still do. I hope that this book speaks to them with an honesty that does not seek to wound, but with a love that dares not refuse the truth. If the thought of belonging to a party of death disturbs them, perhaps they can be moved to leave it."

(Thanks to K-Lo at The Corner, for providing the above quote.)

Side note:  There's an amusing back-and-forth going on between Ponnuru and Andrew Sullivan (not the first), traceable at The Corner.  Ponnuru demolishes Sullivan, as usual.  It's not even a fair fight, really.  To bad for Sullivan he keeps picking them.