The Abortion Struggle in American Politics

The Abortion Struggle in American Politics

Despite opinion polls that consistently show the majority of Americans supporting abortion, the status of legal abortion seems more precarious than ever. Anti-abortionists in Congress are proceeding on two fronts to outlaw abortion altogether: with a constitutional amendment banning abortion and with “Human Life bills” that would declare a fetus to be a “person” so that abortion would become a criminal act. There continue to be successful efforts to limit the scope of ...


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