The pro-life legal strategy has wrongly aimed to make the question of abortion determinable by the democratic process within the states. It is now evident that the pro-life legal movement suffers from a deep ambiguity in its opposition towards Roe v. Wade: Do pro-lifers object to Roe because it violated a fundamental and non-negotiable precept of the natural law? Or do they object because it was decided undemocratically by the Supreme Court, rather than left to the democratic decisions of the individual states?
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Liberal Democracy Cannot Protect the Unborn. We Need 'Illiberalism'
the pro-life legal strategy has wrongly aimed to make the question of abortion determinable by the democratic process within the states. it ...
JonathanCulbreath
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