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The point is indeed moot. Among other factors, the advent of sonograms has been part of the causation in the drop in the number of abortions sought in this country. Mother's to be have difficulty seeing those images and not calling it life. Funny thing that science.
The old arguments for abortion choice have largely lost much of their original persuasiveness. While a small majority of Americans still believe abortion should be legal, more and more women are electing not to make the choice to abort. The debate is shifting in the only way it really matters; within the personal morality of each individual. Some day, probably in the distant future yet, we will regard abortion as an unpleasant part of our past about which we are ashamed, much like we do slavery.
But that change will not come by law or judicial fiat. It will come via advances in science and, what's more, advances in individual codes of morality. It's already begun.
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“Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.”
Wm. F. Buckley, Jr.
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