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How Technology is Reframing the Abortion Debate
Author(s) -
Callahan Daniel
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.2307/3562468
Subject(s) - abortion , cognitive reframing , public opinion , political science , supreme court , law , personhood , politics , sociology , psychology , pregnancy , social psychology , genetics , biology
Since the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, medical and scientific developments have focused greater public and professional attention on the status of the fetus. Their cumulative effect may influence legal, social, and moral thought and set the stage for a change in public opinion and a challenge to legalized abortion. There is as yet no inexorable convergence of medical data and legal opinion that would undermine the rationale of Roe v. Wade. But the prochoice movement must find room for an open airing of the moral questions if abortion is to remain what it should be— a legally acceptable act.