Civil Conversations: Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Pro-Dialogue
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Civil Conversations: Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Pro-Dialogue
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2012-09-26
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Frances Kissling and David Gushee belong to a constellation of reproductive choice and rights activists who are exploring real relationship with their political opposites. These encounters are scarcely imaginable against the backdrop of the absolute poles that frame better-publicized confrontation. David Gushee, who opposes abortion, has written this: “Our legal stalemate about abortion is like a football game, with the two rival teams pushing each other back and forth across the 50-yard line and neither team able to win -- especially if winning is defined by either the total banning of abortion on the one side or its unhindered legalization and funding as a routine health care practice on the other. The pro-life and pro-choice establishments appear committed to the continuation of this game of smash-mouth abortion football until the end of time. It is quite a spectacle, but the legal struggle is actually a distraction from the unresolved cultural and moral issues that have created it.” This civil conversation will start there – with what is really at stake – and break out of the confines and categories of the usual debates.
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Center for the Study of Politics and Governance, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, UMN, Public Radio's Krista Tippett ("On Being"), the Brookings Institution, the John C. Danforth Center for Religion & Politics
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Gushee, David; Kissling, Frances; Tippett, Krista. (2012). Civil Conversations: Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Pro-Dialogue. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/194737.
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