Archive | Abortion

President Bush’s stance on abortion is and will remain a concern to the advocates of individual rights. He holds a convoluted position that straddles the intellectual fence between the pro- and anti-abortion groups. He believes abortion is wrong–except when it isn’t: in the cases of rape, incest, and a threat to the life of the [...]

Boycott this! Boycott that! Fill in the blank: Grapes. Diamonds. Tobacco. Wal-Mart. Nike. Nestle. Denny’s. Disney. McDonald’s. Burma. Nigeria. South Africa. For every politically incorrect product, corporation, and location under the sun, there is a left-wing consumer campaign calling attention to human rights violations. Except one. “BOYCOTT THE PHARMACEUTICAL BUTCHERS OF BEIJING!” Is there a [...]

The abortion pill, the controversial RU-486, is now allowed by the FDA to be sold on the market. How nice of them. President Clinton insists the delay was purely scientific, and not political. Will this man’s capacity for lying never exhaust itself? Of course the years-long delay in allowing RU-486 on the market has been [...]

While the FDA’s delayed approval of the “Abortion Pill” RU-486 (which will be sold in America as mifepristone), is generally a good sign for the recognition of abortion rights, the conditions that the FDA has placed on its use raise serious concerns about the government’s willingness to intervene in a woman’s pregnancy. These conditions on [...]

Anti-abortionists are making a comeback. A woman’s right to abortion is rapidly being eroded by the proliferation of state laws banning certain types of abortions. On April 25, in a case known as Carhart vs. Stenberg (No. 99-830), the Supreme Court will consider the constitutionality of one such law: Nebraska’s law banning so-called “partial-birth” abortions. [...]

Question. I believe the mother must decide to abort the fetus well before the point of normal birth and that the rights of the fetus do actually begin before the baby is born. The standard for when the fetus’ rights may properly begin is when the fetus could remain alive if removed from the womb. [...]

The race for the Republican presidential nomination resembles a piety test over a single issue: the right to abortion. The leading spokesmen of the Religious Right, Alan Keyes and Gary Bauer, have brazenly pledged to outlaw all abortions. The once-promising Steve Forbes has joined them, and seems to be campaigning on a “Holier-than-George-Bush” platform, demanding [...]

George W. Bush holds a most contradictory stand on abortion. Earlier this decade he said: “I do not like abortions. I will do everything in my power to restrict abortions.” Yet when asked if he would seek a constitutional ban on all abortions, he replied in the affirmative — except in cases of rape, incest, [...]