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William Saletan: ?Pro-choice absolutism and the grisly abortion scandal in Philadelphia?

By Alliance Alert

William Saletan writing at Slate: "It's a tale of gore and nihilism?and an occasion for pro-choice advocates to reflect on the limits of reproductive freedom . . . [According to the pro-choice absolutist view] there's no moral difference between eight, 18, and 28 weeks. No one has the right to judge another person's abortion decision, regardless of her stage of pregnancy. Each woman is entitled to decide not only whether to have an abortion, but how long she can wait to make that choice . . . It's one thing to preach these ideas in the lefty blogosphere. It's quite another to see them in practice. That's where Kermit Gosnell, the doctor at the center of the Philadelphia scandal, comes in."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on January 21, 2011 (boomark / email).