… The prima facie case for thinking that the question about prenatal personhood is the central
issue for abortion law and ethics is, I believe, fairly intuitive. If the fetus is a person, then …

… abortion rights and argue effectively against those who are promoting a fantasy that ending
abortion … 5 Conclusion A key lesson in this process is that even while an issue may stay the …

… Abortion is an issue that will not go away and, indeed, … by which to wrest benefit from abortions
too numerous for us any … of what it means to call abortion a public issue. I have no special …

… The power of aligning the issue of abortion with slavery lies in a more universal understanding
of slavery as an inherently bad thing, thereby appealing to more secular sensibilities—if …

… the clash of worldviews we have come to associate with the abortion issue. … abortion as a
scientific issue may also be a reaction against the view that abortion is simply a religious issue. …

… It is important to remember that the public climate on the abortion issue at that time was
so cool that the New York State Legislature's Health Committee could, without fear of much …

… on demand understand what is really at stake in the abortion issue; only in the light of this
understanding can we begin to forge a new political vocabulary in which to conduct the …

… for abortion to be discussed widely in Brazil, and, for the first time, as a human rights issue. It
is not … controversies have situated abortion as the “other” problematic issue to be negotiated …

… are being made against a cultural background that is, broadly speaking, hostile to abortion
rights. The final paragraphs of this section will discuss the issue of culture, while the problem …

… That is part of the abortion issue for us and, we think, for … Court's abortion decision drastically
changed the abortion … At the first major international meeting for abortion rights it was said …