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After Birth Abortion

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I have written about my stance on the abortion debate with Why I’m Pro-Choice But Totally Against Abortion, but the article I came across seems to be a different subject all together. “After Birth Abortion” I just read the 2012 Slate article After-Birth Abortion: The Pro-Choice Case for Infanticide.  The original article in the Journal of Medical Ethics called After Birth Abortion: Why Should the Bay Live? is very troubling. Here’s the abstract. Abortion is largely accepted even Read More …

Why I’m pro-choice but totally against abortion

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On August 29, 1996 Bill Clinton said at the Democratic National Convention, “Abortion should not only be safe and legal, it should be rare.”  I couldn’t agree with him more. Unfortunately, it seems the most ardent modern pro-choice advocates have forgotten the “rare” part of Clinton’s comment. When it comes to the ethics surrounding abortion, the focus seems to have fundamentally shifted; the question of whether or not the child is a living being seems to Read More …