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Article: Why must we moralize about abortion?(Talking About Abortion)
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- Conscience
- Article date:
- December 22, 2004
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THE CONTROVERSY STIRRED BY AMY Richard's public acknowledgement that she chose to have an abortion shows how successful the antiabortion movement has been in shaping the terms of the debate in the US. Antiabortion activists, in their 30-year war against the rights enunciated in Roe v. Wade, have managed to persuade many people that the early fetus is a life worthy of great concern. This has elevated abortion to the status of a "grave moral issue" and has often forced supporters of abortion rights to defend it as a "tragic" choice. As a result, when women like Richards admit that they had abortions because they found a pregnancy inconvenient or because they preferred to ...