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Article: Beyond the legal right; why liberals and feminists don't like to talk about the morality of abortion.
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- The Washington Monthly
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- April 1, 1989
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Why liberals and feminists don't like to talk about the morality of abortion
We going to watch a child being torn apart. . ." promises Dr. Bernard son, "by the unfeeling steel instruments of the abortionist." But the promise isn't really kept. What we see in The Silent Scream, Nathanson's famous anti-abortion film, isn't red dismemberment but flickering gray chaos. I stopped the video tape three times to examine the fuzzy image that Nathanson calls a child's mouth emitting its silent scream. But what I saw looked more like a satellite photo of a Manitoba blizzard, an undifferentiated swirl.
Several years ago as the film's influence spread-Ronald ...