Abortion

Abortion | Abortion Should Be Restricted

In the viewpoint that follows, Michael W. McConnell maintains that the Supreme Court’s legalization of abortion is based on faulty reasoning. For example, the court has stated that a woman’s decision to abort is based on a constitutional “right of privacy,” yet no such right can be found in the Constitution, McConnell explains. The court also claims that it cannot resolve the question of when life begins, but it implicitly denies that the fetus is a person by refusing to protect its life. A majority of Americans, however, oppose abortions after the first trimester and support...

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