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An Australian Perspective on Abortion

The closest example of a counterfactual to Roe v. Wade is Australia, where there is a federal system with no unifying law or ruling concerning abortion.

Dara Macdonald

8 Jul 2022 · 11 min read

Imagining What a (Real) ‘Pro-Life’ Agenda Would Look Like

Now is the time for a pro-life approach to be mobilized in defense of all human life, not just zygotes, blastocysts, embryos, and fetuses.

The Quillette Editorial Board

5 Jul 2022 · 4 min read

The Tragedy of the Unwanted Child: What Ancient Cultures Did Before Abortion

Safe abortion is the modern cure for the ancient heartbreaks of neonaticide and abandonment.

Rob Brooks

24 Jun 2022 · 12 min read

Get Ready for the Return of the Abortion Novel

The abortion novels that proliferated in the late 1960s were filled with characters who are forced by carelessness and circumstance to make the most agonizing of personal choices.

Kevin Mims

5 May 2022 · 26 min read

Biology Won’t Solve Your Problems with Abortion

Claiming that biological terms are authoritative and unambiguous is either a misunderstanding of biology or a failure to appreciate the difficulties inherent in applying linguistic categories to natural phenomena.

Frederick R. Prete

5 Oct 2021 · 11 min read

Rethinking Judith Jarvis Thomson’s Defense of Abortion

The abortion debate is primarily concerned with the bodily autonomy of the mother and/or of the fetus. The rights and duties of the father are seldom discussed.

Michael Robillard

19 Sep 2021 · 6 min read

The Moral Panic about Eugenics Poses a Threat to Abortion Rights

One of the reasons abortion bans on the basis of prenatal diagnoses may have received relatively little attention is because they leave the pro-choice Left in an uncomfortable ethical position.

Diana Fleischman

15 Sep 2021 · 10 min read

Rethinking Abortion Advocacy

Arbitrary doesn’t mean random and it doesn’t mean cruel.

Coleman Hughes

21 May 2019 · 8 min read

The Abortion Issue Isn’t About ‘The Patriarchy’

The debate over the morality and legality of abortion is one of the most divisive and enduring issues in American public life.

Andrew Glover

18 May 2019 · 6 min read