A Critique of the Pro-Choice Argument
In: The review of politics, Band 43, Heft 4, S. 560-571
ISSN: 1748-6858
The debate over abortion in America is at a standstill. The pro-life and pro-choice groups, having settled firmly on incompatible premises, have nothing to say to one another. Their "debate" is only "a battle of bumper stickers between people with their minds already made up." More importantly, they have nothing to say to all the people in the middle who feel uncomfortable with both positions. If the crux of the abortion issue is choosing between being pro-life and pro-choice, then the undecided citizen who sincerely wants his country to act rightly has the dismal opportunity of deciding whether to be anti-choice or anti-life.