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The Kansas Supreme Court Has Declared a “Natural Right” to Abortion
In the wake of last month’s decision, the only remedy left to the people of Kansas is to pass a constitutional amendment to declare that there is no “fundamental right to abortion” in the state’s constitution and to allow the legislature to make reasonable laws about abortion.
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When Reason Does Not Suffice: Why Our Culture Still Accepts Abortion
The pro-life movement is really asking for a moral revolution. If the child lives, the mother’s life will not be the same, because if we accept the principles that allow the child to live, none of our lives can be the same. There is no way to guarantee a world safe for the unborn child that is also a world of total sexual and economic autonomy. In any world in which autonomy is the highest ideal, the child—that incarnate sign of our dependence and existential poverty—must go.
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It Is Never Necessary to Intentionally Kill a Fetal Human Being to Save a Woman’s Life: In Support of the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act
The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act provides a scientifically sound, medically accurate, and respectful approach to ensure that the innocent human being who survives an attempted abortion will be treated with the same human dignity and respect that similarly aged human beings receive in the course of good neonatal medical care. It also ensures that human beings with disabilities are not targeted for intentional killing at the moment of birth.
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Abortion’s Devastating Impact Upon Black Americans
Abortion cannot be allowed on economic, social, or racial grounds—to afford a higher standard of living, for the convenience of uncommitted relationships, or because a minority racial group is involved.
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What’s the Difference Between Abortion and Infanticide?
Is an infant, marked for abortion but delivered alive, even in tragic circumstances, a person whom the law ought to protect?
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Abortion: The Original Sin of the United Nations’ Human Rights Project
Indifference to human life in the prenatal phase is the original sin of the multilateral system, enshrined in its constituent agreements and diligently propagated throughout its institutions. Nothing short of a revolution in international policy will do if the human rights project is to be truly reclaimed.
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Scarlet A Lacks a High-Quality Abortion Debate
Public Discourse is launching two new features: short book notes and longform essays. They'll run occasionally, on Saturdays and Sundays. Today is our first book note. In it, Charles K. Bellinger reviews Katie Watson's Scarlet A, arguing that books about abortion often fail to address deeper and broader issues.
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A Christian Argument for Abortion?
Rebecca Todd Peters’s new book is titled Trust Women: A Progressive Christian Argument for Reproductive Justice. Yet she totally dismisses the arguments and decisions of pro-life women. Perhaps a better title would have been “trust pro-choice women to make pro-choice decisions.”
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The Jewish Position On Abortion Isn’t What You Think It Is
Although many Jews have been misled into thinking otherwise, Judaism is not compatible with political support for abortion.
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The Trump Administration Must Keep Abortion Out of Humanitarian Law and Policy
The Trump administration must continue to push the United Nations to respect U.S. sovereign prerogatives not to support abortion in humanitarian efforts. It must not give abortion groups a pass to continue to implement their covert strategy to establish an international right to abortion.
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Forcing Pro-Life Pregnancy Care Centers to Advertise for Abortion is Unjust and Unconstitutional
Pregnancy care centers are being targeted by the state of California for respecting the intrinsic worth and dignity of women and children, even when it is unprofitable to do so.
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The Ostrich Defense of Abortion
These abortion advocates stick their heads in the sand and demonstrate their ignorance of even the most basic facts of the pro-life position.
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Gift-Motherhood, the Prius, and the Peace Corps: Reducing Abortion by Incentivizing Adoption
Making adoption more viable by providing economic incentives and social support is pro-life without being anti-choice, and it is a cause that could be embraced by liberals as well as conservatives. The second in a two-part series.
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A Path to Détente in the War over Abortion
How can we make it more attractive, and more beneficial to everyone, for women facing unwanted pregnancy to choose to carry their babies to term? The first in a two-part series.
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Ten (Bad, But Popular) Arguments for Abortion
A philosophy professor reflects on the poor arguments that convince his students of the justice of abortion.
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American Abortion, American Freedom
Like slavery, abortion has become in the leftist mind the central political issue, on which the economic and social liberties of the modern United States all hang.
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The Constitution Already Prohibits Abortion: An Originalist Case for Prenatal Personhood
Justice Antonin Scalia, an originalist, famously held that the Constitution neither permits nor prohibits abortion. On the contrary, unborn babies are “persons” within the original public meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment, and they are consequently owed due process and equal protection on constitutional grounds.
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A Christian Abortion Doctor? On the Ignorance, Arrogance, and Violence of the Pro-Choice Cause
Willie Parker’s new memoir displays the characteristic ignorance, arrogance, and violence of the pro-choice worldview.
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Advice for Judge Gorsuch If Asked About Abortion
The pro-choice worldview is a tangled mess of inconsistent ideas.
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Abortion Stops a Beating Heart: The Heartbeat Protection Act of 2017
Recent scientific advances, popular opinion, and universal moral standards agree: abortion should not be allowed to stop a child’s beating heart.
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Throw Off Your Rubber Chains! From Contraception to Transgenderism via Abortion
A desire to be protected from the meaning of our body has led only to a need to be protected from the ravages of reality.
