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Article: A reconciling way to talk about abortion; South Dakota's 2006 campaign could be a harbinger.(NEWS)(Editorial)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- October 31, 2007
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Minnesotans have been slinging fightin' words about abortion at each other for more than 35 years - so long, and with such polarizing effect, that the issue has created what has seemed to be two permanently irreconcilable camps. Democratic self-governance has suffered as a result. Might that change if abortion were discussed not in terms of absolutes and inflexible rights, but of moral ambiguity? What if those discussions moved out of the confrontational environment of the courtroom, into the conversational arena of politics? Those mind-opening questions were raised last week at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute, as Sarah Stoesz of Planned Parenthood of ...
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