Finding the moral, sensible middle ground on abortion

Our liberal system of government demands that we find a compromise between two competing visions of the moral good

Pro and anti abortion protesters
(Image credit: (Meredith Rizzo/Demotix/Corbis, Ken Cedeno/Corbis))

Did you know that in the contemporary United States a woman who has a miscarriage after falling down a flight of stairs can be arrested for "attempted fetal homicide"?

Or that a judge can order a critically ill pregnant woman to undergo a cesarean section even though he knows it might kill her? (In at least one case, the woman and baby both ended up dead.)

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Damon Linker

Damon Linker is a senior correspondent at TheWeek.com. He is also a former contributing editor at The New Republic and the author of The Theocons and The Religious Test.