{"id":12270,"date":"2009-07-25T00:50:01","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T07:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2009\/07\/25\/12270.html"},"modified":"2009-07-25T00:50:01","modified_gmt":"2009-07-25T07:50:01","slug":"some-interesting-abortion-arti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2009\/07\/25\/some-interesting-abortion-arti\/","title":{"rendered":"Some interesting abortion articles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The other day, happened across an interesting article in TIME<\/cite>: \"Finding Common Ground on an Abortion Bill<\/a>,\" by Amy Sullivan. It describes the collaborative efforts of a pro-life Democratic US Representative and a pro-choice one (and supporters from both sides) to create a bill intended to reduce abortion rates.<\/p>\n

That article led me to two others from TIME<\/cite>, both by Nancy Gibbs:<\/p>\n

First, her 2007 article \"The Grass-Roots Abortion War<\/a>,\" about pro-life pregnancy centers and (in the last couple pages of the article) about some interesting attempts for people on opposite sides to talk constructively with each other.<\/p>\n

That article provides some sobering statistics. For example:<\/p>\n

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About half of American women will face an unplanned pregnancy, according to the nonprofit Guttmacher Institute, and at current rates more than one-third will have an abortion by the time they are 45.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But the part I was most interested in was the discussion of attempts to find common ground:<\/p>\n

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[I]t took a year to come up with a common-ground statement of goals: to decrease abortions, relieve the social and economic conditions that lead women to consider abortion, make adoption easier, condemn violence and keep talking.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The article is nine pages long, but worth reading if you're interested in this stuff. From the final paragraph:<\/p>\n

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Once you've come to know your adversaries personally, once the cartoon villains are brushed away, the conversation becomes more complicated—and more useful.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And then there's Gibbs's May, 2009 article \"Understanding America's Shift on Abortion<\/a>.\" Some interesting and usefully nuanced (though brief) discussion of some surprising (to me) recent Gallup poll results.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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