Abortion
In 1973, the U.S. Supreme court passed Roe v. Wade, declaring that most laws against abortion violated a woman's constitutional right to privacy. Since that landmark ruling, abortion has become one of the nation's most controversial and divisive issues. Read about the issue from the pro-choice and pro-life camps in our featured articles and publications.
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2001 Current abortion laws in El Salvador are among the most restrictive in the world. The new Penal Code which came into effect in April 1998...
* Eugene Kennedy (NCR, April 23) points out that the Catholic bishops, having used the National Review Board as a means of dealing with the church's...
* Your editorial "Politics, piety and the Catholic vote" (NCR, April 30) makes the point well that politicians' pro-choice or pro-life rhetoric has...
In Understanding Medical Abortion: Policy, Politics, and Women's Health, the University of Oregon's Center for the Study of Women in Society presents...
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