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Monday, April 13, 2015

Should Women Who Seek Abortion Go To Prison? And If Not, Why Not?

Human Life?
Human Being?
Human Person?

Compendium Of Pax Posts On Abortion

ELIZABETH STOKER BRUENIG: Paul and other pro-life candidates need to think about whether they'd send women who seek abortions to prison. "It is because human life matters and should be treasured that the particularities of abortion policy are extremely important. ... Extant policies enacted under the same pro-life logic that Paul outlined don’t portend well for those of us who dislike abortion but also oppose the life-destroying carceral system. ... The majority of women who have abortions are already mothers. Would removing them from their other children serve a pro-life purpose, when so much of pro-life reasoning points toward the importance of the mother-child relationship? ... Anti-abortion, in other words, is not necessarily 'pro-life.' This is why policy details matter." The New Republic



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