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Introduction: Does Access to Abortion Enhance or Diminish a Society?
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MODERN THOUGHT
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5 / 1992 |
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The issue of abortion, especially in the United States, is a battleground in which facts and feelings become more often than not spears and arrows flung with angry intensity by advocates of one position or another at their opponents.
Often, the quality of the discourse is degraded thereby, descending to the level of mere verbal fisticuffs. In a vicious circle, one person's outraged attack on one of another belief increases intergroup rancor, making it all the more difficult for the facts to be objectively sifted and for an amicable consensus to be achieved.
The following two articles are not without emotion, but by and large they present rational and objective arguments for and against abortion.
Malcolm Potts marshals clinical, medical, embryological, and even theological facts in support of legalized abortion. Potts says that access to abortion annually saves the lives of countless women the world over. Studies have shown that unwanted children are far more likely than others to become alcoholics, criminals, and other burdens upon society.
Camille S. Williams describes how many values that have undergirded the health of American society through the years have been eroded, and how the availability of abortion has contributed to that process. She says that a society such as that in America that has largely embraced a materialistic and hedonistic value system is unable to really appreciate and value human life, especially frail and defenseless human life.
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