"Teresa Stanton Collett and Michael Stokes Paulsen offer the moral case against Roe. Roe, Collett argues, is the product of a misguided radical individualism that undermines womenâs liberty and equality. Making abortion readily available will allow men to escape responsibility for sex and parenthood, while âartificial birth control and abortion . . . treat womenâs bodies as unnatural: something to be altered to conform to the male model.â âI refuse to accept,â Collett declares, âthat women must deny their fertility and slay their children in order to obtain equal access to the marketplace and the public square.â Michael Stokes Paulsen also offers a forthrightly pro-life opinion, arguing that abortion is deeply immoral and that the Court has severely damaged its authority by recognizing it as a fundamental right. âAbortion,â he insists, âdoes not destroy potential life. Abortion kills a living human being.â Paulsen writes in a prophetic voice, denouncing the evils of abortion and condemning the Court for having been complicit in the destruction of so many innocent human lives. Paulsen calls on the conscience of Americans to abandon what he regards as the Courtâs most lawless and immoral opinion, or, as he describes it, âthe most awful human atrocity inflicted by the Court in our Nationâs history.â"
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