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Hadley Arkes: The lure of sewing on alligators

By Alliance Alert

Hadley Arkes writing at The Catholic Thing: "I?ve been making the case in these columns for a design of pro-life legislation that keeps its focus on the victim . . . I?ve entered the plea that there is a danger of subtly shifting from the central moral question when we concentrate on the harms absorbed by the pregnant woman and take the focus away from that small being who is being poisoned or dismembered . . . My own preference has run then to legislation that strikes at the premises of that right to kill the nascent life in the womb. But the irony here is that some of the measures that are more oblique ? less challenging to the premises of abortion ? may actually have more of an effect in reducing abortions."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on August 04, 2010 (boomark / email).