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Smart people talking about abortion

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First, let me call your attention to Current contributing editor Daniel K. Williams‘s piece today at The Atlantic: “This Really is a Different Pro-Life Movement.” A taste: The enthusiastic embrace of the movement by white evangelicals in the Bible Belt […]

Is abortion “deeply rooted” in American history?

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In his leaked decision overturning Roe v. Wade, Samuel Alito wrote, “The inescapable conclusion is that a right to abortion is not deeply rooted into the Nation’s history and tradition.” Is this true? It is hard to define what “deeply […]

Few Americans are absolutists on abortion

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From Pew Research: Abortion should be legal in most cases: 36% Abortion should illegal in most cases: 27% Abortion should be legal in all cases, no exceptions: 19% Abortion should be illegal in all cases, no exceptions: 8% Abortion should […]

Current on abortion

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In light of the leaked Samuel Alito draft, I thought I would post links to a few pieces at Current that have addressed the issue of abortion. I am sure there will be more to say once we hear more […]

The story behind the first abortion law in the United States

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Here is a taste of Allyson Schettino’s post at the blog of the New-York Historical Society: The jury was outraged that a religious leader had persuaded a woman to terminate her pregnancy to hide his misbehavior and escape responsibility for […]

Is the Texas abortion law really stopping abortions?

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Here is Axios: The number of Texas residents who traveled out-of-state to access abortion care increased dramatically after the most restrictive abortion ban in the U.S. went into effect in the state in September. Driving the news: Newly released data shows that Planned Parenthood health centers […]

Abortions drop 60% in Texas under new law

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Here is Paul Weber of the Associated Press: Abortions in Texas fell by 60% in the first month under the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S. in decades, according to new figures that for the first time reveal a […]

Evangelicals talk abortion: round 2

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Yesterday I posted a video of evangelical Christians Lisa Sharon Harper, Shane Claiborne, Randall Balmer, Ron Sider, Andrew Lucado, Rob Schenk, and others discussing abortion. Today I realized that this conversation took place just before the 2020 elections. Some of […]

Evangelicals discuss abortion

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All of these participants–Elaina Ramsey, Shane Claiborne, Andrea Lucado, Jerushah Duford, Tatiana Torres, Rob Schenck, Randall Balmer, Ron Sider, and Lisa Sharon Harper–identify as evangelical Christians. Rob Schenck’s remarks are especially revealing and powerful:

Ross Douthat makes a case against abortion

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Here is a taste of his New York Times column: …with the court set this week to hear Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade, it seems worth letting the lawyers handle the meta-arguments […]

What do Jewish texts say about abortion?

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Whatever one thinks about the recent Texas abortion law, this piece by Rachel Mikva of Chicago Theological Seminary reminds us that not all religious people believe that life begins at the fetus’s heartbeat. Here is a taste of her piece […]

Texas effectively bans abortion

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Here is Adam Liptak at The New York Times: The Supreme Court did not take action early Wednesday on a request to block a Texas law prohibiting most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, allowing the most restrictive abortion […]

Supreme Court will take-up Mississippi abortion case

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We will keep an eye on this. Here is CNN: The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to take up a key abortion case next term concerning a controversial Mississippi law that banned most abortions after 15 weeks, rekindling a potentially major challenge to […]