The response, detailed above, to the book's central moral claims is also instructive. In 1970 and for many years thereafter, advocates of legal abortion portrayed themselves as the party of cool, dispassionate reason. Their opponents were the prisoners of superstition and emotion. Pro-abortionists back then tried-not, I think, well-to argue either ( Read more... )

It may be a worthwhile study to find out the etymological root of conception as it pertains to the generation of new life. Perhaps this now technical term once was understood to have more of a metaphysical nuance tied in with it: for example, why does it make sense to say that someone can be "conceived" as though we were, from the beginning, an ( Read more... )

If we were to work with the pro-choice movement to reduce abortions (often touted as "Common Ground"), would that mean compromises would have to be made on one side or the other or both? Or is it possible for the two sides to work together to reduce the amount of abortions without compromising their beliefs at all? Please give examples, if you can ( Read more... )

Fifty-four percent of women having abortions used a contraceptive method during the month they became pregnant. Among those women, 76% of pill users and 49% of condom users reported using their method inconsistently, while 13% of pill users and 14% of condom users reported correct use.

That is, 46% used no contraception at all, and although I can' ( Read more... )

Pro-choicers have many endearing terms for pro-lifers, the newest of which in my repertoire is "forced pregnancy activists", which I recently found at Feministing, a feminist website where the answer to everything is to tax everyone to a beatific 64% "for the children" and increasing the nanny state in everyone's life-not actual nannys, mind you, ( Read more... )