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Abortion Is Morally Wrong
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CURRENT ISSUES
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10 / 1989 |
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Nancy E. Meyers
Nancy E. Meyers is media relations director of the National
Right to Life Committee. |
Abortion is becoming the great moral issue of this century, much as slavery was in the last. The July 3 Supreme Court decision in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services marks a new stage in the debate because, for the first time in 16 years, the American people have been given back at least limited power to protect unborn life, and pending court cases may give back even more.
Media attention has begun to focus on strategies and politics in the abortion debate--how the proabortion and prolife activists work, how the issue will play in elections, and how lawmakers will work to pass or block protective legislation.
The proabortion side, especially, is attracting media attention by talk of strategy, activism, and increased momentum on the issue. They talk about choices, politics, personalities, and framing the debate properly. They talk about anything except the central issue before our country--abortion.
The highly motivated prolife movement, meanwhile, continues its activities of education about abortion, lobbying, and public affairs to bring about meaningful protection for all human life. The talk, as it has been for 16 years, is about abortion.
The current strategy of abortion advocates is to frame the debate in terms of "choice." They ask, who should decide whether a woman may have an abortion--the woman or society at large? Freedom of personal, private choice, they assert, should be absolute in a free country, regardless of reason, timing, or the opinions of others. Society at large should not impose its views on
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