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Article: ANTI-ABORTION CAUSE MAY BE A LOST ONE GOAL OF BANNING ABORTIONS APPEARS UNATTAINABLE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 6, 1988
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Recent noisiness aside, the strident movement to ban abortions
may be doomed to failure. Despite eight years of presidential
sympathy with its goals, the anti-abortion movement begins to look
increasingly futile and threatened by change.
For all the pickets and placards, it has not stopped
abortions. Fifteen years after Roe vs. Wade affirmed the right to
abortion, some 1.5 million terminations occur each year in the
United States.
And there seems little promise the movement can change this in
the future. Even with the possible election this week of a new
Republican president who could tip the fragile Supreme Court
alignment against Roe vs. Wade, by all other measures public
opinion ...