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By Austin Cline, About.com Guide to Atheism since 1998

Is Abortion Too Easy? Denigrating Women's Choices, Autonomy

Saturday January 3, 2009

There seems to be a common attitude shared even by some abortion rights supporters that abortions shouldn't be too easy to obtain. People apparently feel that if abortions are easy to get, then they would be "abused" — as if women can't be trusted to use abortion "correctly" or as if the meaning of pregnancy would be diminished. Does it make sense to treat abortion as a constitutional right, but not one women should have easy access to? We don't do this with any other right but it is a means by which religious authority figures can interfere in the exercise of a right without having to fight legal battles over criminalizing it.

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