Debate on abortion is deferred until autumn

The legislative process is not fit for the abortion debate.

Abortion is more than a debate about conscientious objection.

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A Catholic Reflects on Dialogue in the Abortion Debate

The recent comments by Pope Francis on abortion have caused a bit of a stir in the media. His nuanced responses are often lost in the media, and also by advocates on both sides of the abortion debate. While the Catholic position against abortion is common knowledge, this does not preclude openness to dialogue. This article looks at some recent attempts at dialogue on the controversial topic of ...

Fertility and the Abortion-Crime Debate

Recently some scholars have asserted that abortion legalization during the 1970s resulted in lower crime 15-20 years later. While economists have both substantiated and challenged these findings, sociologists and demographers have been mute on the topic. In this paper, we show that the supposed link between abortion and crime is actually the result of omitted variables bias and difficulties in ...

Extracorporeal embryos and the abortion debate.