Hillary Clinton faced criticism from both sides
of the abortion debate after she waded into the fraught argument about when life begins by describing the unborn as a «person.»
Not exact matches
Jeffes does not shy away from some
of the most sensitive issues in this
debate:
abortion after rape, and when a disability is discovered.
Earlier this month, the Texas legislature approved a loudly -
debated package
of restrictions on
abortions in the Lone Star State; among other things, requiring
abortion clinics to bring their facilities in line with surgical standards and banning
abortions after 20 weeks.
The
abortion debate in Italy has been reignited by the story
of a baby that was found still alive
after a botched
abortion.
After Roe: The Lost History
of the
Abortion Debate by mary ziegler harvard university press, 400 pages, $ 39.95
It took a while for some to appreciate the contours
of the
debate, but in the decades
after Roe v. Wade, there came to be a gradual appreciation
of the deep connection between the Judeo - Christian framework and full - throated opposition to most forms
of abortion.
But however we characterize it, the chief value
of After Roe lies in the corrective it offers
of various false or misleading narratives about our post-1973
abortion debate.
Abortion is just about the most emotionally - sensitive issue for lawmakers on both sides
of the aisle, but passions were kicked into overdrive in that afternoon's
debate after Assemblyman Ron Castorina, a Republican who has been in the chamber for a little more than a month, compared the procedure to «African - American genocide.»
After 16 hours
of debate last week, Germany's lower house
of parliament, the Bundestag, voted to standardise Article 218, the nation's
abortion law.
The videos reignited a long - standing
debate over the use
of fetal tissue collected through
abortions, fueled efforts seeking to ban
abortions after 20 weeks
of pregnancy, re-energized arguments over whether public money should support Planned Parenthood and became the subject
of a Republican - led investigation on Capitol Hill.
Planned Parenthood, which receives about $ 500 million annually from the government, was hurled into the spotlight this summer
after an anti-
abortion group released several videos showing employees discussing the logistics
of fetal tissue donation and reinvigorated the national
debate over
abortion.