Abortion Controversy, The | Chapter 1 Preface

When the pro-life and pro-choice movements debate the morality of abortion, their arguments often center around the question of whether abortion is murder. Yet to resolve this controversy, both factions are faced with determining exactly when life begins—at fertilization, birth, or sometime in between. Members of the pro-life movement believe that abortion is murder because it intentionally kills a human being. As social services professor William Brennan explains, “When the abortionist invades the sanctuary of the womb, the passenger within is by all scientific criteria alive,...

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