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Friday 6 July 2012

CFN - Abortion, a Necessary Evil




My latest for the Cornwall Free News.  For the full column, go to the CFN page.

There’s a good reason why all but the most ideological politicians are loath to touch abortion as an issue. If a woman has an obligation to carry any pregnancy through, what are society’s obligations to that woman, or to that child? How do you tackle the use of abortion as a form of selective birth control? Is there an obligation to teach our youth about the birds and the bees so that they can make informed choices – and does that obligation rest with parents or with society? What about cases of rape, of mental illness, etc? Is it hypocritical to be pro-life but pro-capital punishment, or pro-choice and anti-capital punishment? While abortion might be a black-and-white issue for the pro-choice and pro-life partisans, for policy makers it’s a Pandora’s Box of complex legal ramifications that touch on fields ranging from justice to education to healthcare.

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