blog.beliefnet.com - 11/19/2008
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One of the most animated discussions involving faith communities that's underway in the wake of November 4 is about abortion policy. To put it simply, the conservative drive to take a first step towards a national abortion ban via an...
rossdouthat.theatlantic.com - 11/20/2008
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rossdouthat.theatlantic.com —
Ed Kilgore : Here is the real deal
on abortion policy: activists on both sides of the...
abortion debate understand yet rarely acknowledge that a critical plurality of Americans don't much like abortion but care a whole lot about when and why abortions ...
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The When and the Why of Abortion
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The When and the Why of Abortion
Ross Douthat —
Ed Kilgore: Here is the real deal on abortion policy: activists on both sides of
the abortion debate understand yet rarely acknowledge that a critical
plurality of Americans don't much like abortion but care a whole lot
about when and why abortions occur. That plurality position,
especially from the point of view of anti-abortion activists, is
morally and metaphysically incoherent; if a fertilized ovum is a full
human being with an immortal soul, and putative constitutional rights,
then it doesn't much matter when or why it is aborted; the result ...
Who Says Why?
Lawyers, Guns and Money —
Ed Kilgore says that "a critical plurality of Americans don't much like abortion but care a whole lot about when and why abortions occur." Assuming that this is true -- and there's some evidence for it -- ...
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