Beyond the Abortion Wars: A Way Forward for a New Generation
Language: English
Pages: 221
ISBN: 0802871283
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The abortion debate in the United States is confused. Ratings-driven media coverage highlights extreme views and creates the illusion that we are stuck in a hopeless stalemate. In this book Charles Camosy argues that our polarized public discourse hides the fact that most Americans actually agree on the major issues at stake in abortion morality and law.
Unpacking the complexity of the abortion issue, Camosy shows that placing oneself on either side of the typical polarizations -- pro-life vs. pro-choice, liberal vs. conservative, Democrat vs. Republican -- only serves to further confuse the debate and limits our ability to have fruitful dialogue. Camosy then proposes a new public policy that he believes is consistent with the beliefs of the broad majority of Americans and supported by the best ideas and arguments about abortion from both secular and religious sources.
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Contexts (after birth) in which an innocent person is almost certainly going to die in the future, this does not change the fact that we may not kill her, even to produce a very good outcome. Regardless of one’s views of these matters, it is worth noting that even after making this argument, Rohnheimer has maintained impeccable “pro-life” credentials and has not been censured by any Catholic.
Henry Hyde, led the charge to unite with people like Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority of the Christian right.26 The abortion battle had been joined in earnest, and this was the crucial turning point. Day claims that Democrats, if they were to stay true to their principles, should have sided with Carter. They should have maintained that abortion was wrong and worked to give women the resources to.
On data, but on biased speculation in favor of one’s already established position on abortion. But what about our contemporary situation? Perhaps data are better now, and we can bypass this difficulty by focusing on more reliable contemporary evidence? A relatively recent commentary on studies about abortion maternal health done from 1995 to 2008, for instance, was published in a 2012 edition of The Lancet.30.
Into the abortion debate? Chapter 3 demonstrated that there are further questions to ask, but we can say a few things before going into those issues. All persons, including prenatal children, have a moral and legal right to life, and this means that we cannot aim at their death except in self-defense or defense of another. Having said that, however, we can see that a legal right to life does not bring with it an absolute legal duty on the part of others to.
Http://washingtonexaminer.com/70-new-anti-abortion-laws-okd-in-22-states-second-mostever/article/2541498 (accessed Feb. 7, 2014). 53. Guttmacher Institute, “2012 Saw Second-Highest Number of Abortion Restrictions Ever”: http://www.guttmacher.org/media/inthenews/2013/01/02/ (last modified Jan. 2, 2013; accessed July 1, 2013). 54. Linda Feldmann, “Nine States Charging Hard against Abortion,” The Christian Science Monitor (2013):.