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For example, would pro-lifers advocate treating abortion as premeditated, first-degree murder--even if there were a death penalty involved? Obviously, treating abortion as any sort of murder would implicate both-abortionists (as murderers) and pregnant women (as accomplices, at least). But would fathers be legally culpable as well...
There is also the question of a rape exception. Pro-lifers who oppose it must justify the use of victims' bodies as vessels which, as a result of a traumatizing, violent crime, produce unwanted offspring.
If the pro-lifers simply attempt to change societal attitudes toward abortion through persuasion, they will not only have more credibility, but they will have more success. After all, once the issue of choice is removed, no one really likes abortion: it is physically excruciating and humiliating, often leaving permanent...
Ferraro insisted on facing the abortion issue head on. In Congress, she said, she represented not only Catholics but non-Catholics who were not morally opposed to ending unwanted pregnancies medically. As for the criticism of Catholic officials, she said, "My church doesn't speak for me, and I don...
The 600 delegates who gathered in Dublin's 18th century Mansion House for the annual conference of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, were exuberant. Reason: the I.R.A.'s success in planting the Brighton hotel bomb that last month almost killed British Prime Minister...