From Philosophy TV, Don Marquis and Michael Tooley debate abortion and personhood. Abortion in Europe is a right that isn't: Ireland is only one of several European nations to take a restrictive approach to abortion (and more by Linda Greenhouse). Ross Douthat on the way abortion may have become much more of an identity-politics totem than, say, issues like divorce and premarital sex, or even personal habits like churchgoing; and on the unborn paradox: In America, there’s been tragic contrast between the burden of unwanted pregnancies and the burden of infertility. A review of The Fetal Position: A Rational Approach to the Abortion Issue by Chris Meyers. From Ms., an article on the anti-abortion clinic across the street. A book salon on Before Roe v. Wade: Voices that Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court’s Ruling by Linda Greenhouse and Reva Siegel. Why is the black abortion rate so high? It's puzzling when poll results show that blacks tend to view abortion through a conservative lens. A look at how terror attacks on abortion clinics do little to reduce abortion rates. A study published this fall in the leading journal Social Science and Medicine found little support for the “abortion-as-trauma” framework pushed by anti-choice advocates. From Spiked, Ann Furedi on a moral defence of late abortion. MTV's shockingly good abortion special: The network that brought us "Teen Mom" tackles one of television's trickiest taboos — amazingly, they nail it. A review of The Ethics of Abortion: Women's Rights, Human Life, and the Question of Justice by Christopher Kaczor. For “pro-life” Republicans, human life is cheap.
