Debate on Abortion Rights

Women's autonomy as self-directed persons

The fundamental goodness of existence

As a positive social good that should be embraced and celebrated

<p>Their love of human life not translating into policies for human flourishing</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A devastating attack on women's bodily autonomy and equality</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They love human life abstractly but not concretely</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>According to the passage, both sides offer to help women either by securing the social and economic expedient of abortion, rather than challenging larger structural inequalities, or by going only so far in advocating policies that would protect and celebrate the biological, social and religious good that is motherhood.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The passage states that the tension between the two sides seems &quot;insurmountable&quot; and that the &quot;false dichotomy of our discourse&quot; forces us to choose either women or children, mothers or babies, autonomy or life. The passage argues that this assumption is a &quot;dreadful either/or&quot; that limits discussions about abortion.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The passage states that the author has &quot;been on both sides of this issue&quot; and remains &quot;committed to women's equality and full participation in society&quot; as well as &quot;committed to the protection of life, especially where it is most vulnerable.&quot; The author argues that these two beliefs are &quot;not only not irreconcilable, they are mutually dependent.&quot;</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The passage states that the &quot;virulent reaction to the Dobbs ruling makes clear that this dreadful either/or is our shared point of departure.&quot; It argues that &quot;Unwillingness to choose a side is viewed as nave at best or as moral failure and political treason at worst,&quot; indicating that the binary framework of the debate leaves little room for nuanced perspectives.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The passage states that &quot;we may also see real human goods at the heart of these oppositions: concern for women, concern for children.&quot;</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The passage states that the advocate's statement that &quot;we're all 'gonna have to decide, who do you stand up for the women or fetuses?...Are you going to violate the human rights of the people already here to protect the human rights of the people who are yet to be born?&quot; reflects an &quot;unstated hypothesis&quot; that &quot;we cannot protect both women and the unborn.&quot; The passage argues that this either/or framing is a &quot;dreadful&quot; and problematic assumption.</p> Signup and view all the answers