In Europe the focus is less on moral absolutes, and more about fashioning working...
Pro-choice and anti-abortion activists demonstrate in front of the Supreme Court Building on Tuesday, May 3, 2022, in Washington, D.C.Lawmakers in an advanced nation with deeply religious roots waded into the vexing issue of abortion last month, several weeks before someone leaked a draft U.S. Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 ruling granting women a right to an abortion in this country.
The first group of lawmakers was in Spain, where abortion has been legal since 1985 in cases of rape, fetal deformity or serious physical or psychological risk to the mother. Most Western European countries, including traditionally Catholic Spain, have reached a position of relative consensus on abortion, acknowledging that it has always been a complicated issue, legally and morally, but not one that easily lends itself to sanction.
We offer up the contrasting perspectives on abortion to underscore both the wide range of deeply held views and the fluid nature of those views over time. Although we tend to presume that abortion positions are set in stone, as timeless as the Ten Commandments, that has never been the case. It took theat its position that life begins at conception and that abortion from that precise moment is a sin against God.
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