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Moroccan activists push to end abortion ban
Hundreds of Moroccan women a day are resorting to backstreet abortions, a leading doctor has estimated, prompting calls for reform in a country where the termination of pregnancies remains illegal. Campaigners say some of those resorting to illegal abortion are the victims of rape, driven at least in part by…
The mythical reasonable pro-lifer
The search continues. Ross Douthat hasn’t completely outed himself as another anti-contraception nut, but he’s getting closer by denying that contraception reduces the abortion rate by attacking the cause of the vast majority of abortions, which is unplanned pregnancy. He’s smart enough to realize that openly peddling anti-sex ideas like…
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