Our society is currently in the midst of a sexual revolution which has cast the problem of
abortion into the forefront of religious, medical, and legal thought. In my day at the bar all …

My first point is a plea for greater sanity in the debate over abortion laws—a plea directed
against the credence currently given the contention that anyone who opposes any of the …

Educated American opinion today accords an acceptance to abortion which even a decade
ago it did not enjoy. Estimates of its actual practice in America vary enormously; the highest …

" This excellent books is bound to stir debate on the abortion issue and to occupy a rather
distinctive position."--RG Frey, Bowling Green State University With the current composition …

The status of abortion as murder, and therefore amenable to governmental intervention and
criminalization, has been asserted by those favoring limits on abortion. Opponents claim a …

With the rise in illegal abortions, there is increasing pressure for a liberalization of the
existing laws regulating abortion. In the middle of the clamor stand the religious institutions …

" The right to life is one of the fundamental values on which Western society has been built."
St John-Stevas, The Right to Life 115 (1963) The abortion controversy is assuming national …

Religious Convictions and Political Choice discusses in elaborate detail the question of
whether, or to what extent, citizens in a liberal democ-racy" properly rely on their religious …

During the Law Teachers Seminar on Law, Society, and Moral Order at Syracuse University
in 1979, Professor Richard Schwartz presented a graphic image of" the gap" that may exist …

Two realities make continuing disagreement likely: the limits of human knowledge1 and the
diversity of moral belief systems. 2 Because disagreement will persist, we must learn to …