How the Last Debate Added to Our Hopelessly Incoherent Discourse on Abortion

By Charles Camosy
Image via RNS/Reuters/Rick Wilking
Oct 20, 2016
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For the first time in three general election debates, a moderator asked the presidential candidates on Oct. 19 about abortion.

Given that abortion has rightly been described as the source of America’s second civil war, there has been a baffling lack of engagement with it this election cycle.

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