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Amid the mourning for Charlie Kirk, and widespread support and empathy for his family, I couldn’t help thinking about another, less obvious loss — the children that Charlie and Erika Kirk likely would have had in the future.
I haven’t seen any clips of either of them talking about how many children they planned to have, but I have to think that they wouldn’t have stopped at two, given the couple’s enthusiasm for family life.
We live in a culture in which many people believe that a child already conceived has no right to life, and so theoretical children have even less sway and may not pass muster in a victim impact statement during the sen