Abortion bans are almost certainly a sign and a tool of maintaining gender inequality. You can easily see this by watching the resistance to"harm to unborn babies" evaporate when there's no woman wrapped around said embryo. read more
As for Douthat’s argument that abortion restrictions in the US have coincided with advances for women in many areas, that hardly proves that legal abortion is irrelevant. read more
While we oppose sex selective abortion due to the deeply entrenched gender inequality it reflects, we do not believe that placing restrictions on women’s access to abortion is the most appropriate way of redressing such inequality. The efforts of countries that have tried to prohibit sex-selective abortions have been unsuccessful. read more
Abortion bans are almost certainly a sign and a tool of maintaining gender inequality. You can easily see this by watching the resistance to "harm to unborn babies" evaporate when there's no woman wrapped around said embryo. read more
Many defenders of legalized abortion argue that it is required by gender equality. The burdens of pregnancy and childbirth fall upon women but never upon men. So only with access to abortion can women be truly equal and able to determine the course of their lives. read more