Editing Walker Percy (section)

=== Views ===
Percy was strongly anti-abortion. In 1981, he authored a ''[[New York Times]]'' opinion article, in which he called abortion a "banal atrocity".<ref>{{cite news|last=Percy|first=Walker|title=A View of Abortion with Something to Offend Everybody|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/06/08/reviews/percy-abortion.html|work=[[New York Times]]|date=8 June 1981}}</ref> On another occasion, Percy once told an interviewer:

<blockquote>If I had anything to say to the [[liberalism in the United States|liberals]], it is that I agree with them on almost everything: their political and social causes, and the [[ACLU]], God knows, the right to freedom of speech, to help the homeless, the poor, the minorities, God knows the blacks, the third world—their hearts are in the right place. It’s actually a mystery, a bafflement to me, how they cannot see the paradox of being in favor of these good things and yet not batting an eyelash when it comes to destroying unborn life.<ref name="First">{{cite news|last=Van Maren|first=Johnathon|title=Walker Percy and Abortion|url=https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2023/04/walker-percy-and-abortion|work=First Things|date=3 April 2023}}</ref></blockquote>

Percy's final novel, ''[[The Thanatos Syndrome]]'', condemns [[eugenics]], [[senicide]], and [[abortion]].<ref name="First"/>