On one hand, the State's jurisdiction over children, is so sufficiently broad that they can subject them to risk of physical harm, yet it is not broad enough to help them out of the very harm they subject them to when complications arise. Only when the State stuffs it up does the parental responsibility kick in. A critque of Family Planning Association of New Zealand's suggestion that 'the rational' response to high abortion rates lies with sex education. Phillipa defends the right to refuse. It is this politically correct, but subtly coercive, view that now dominates popular abortion discourse.
Coercion is OK when it ends with abortion.
The defense of abortion has grown so loud that it silences its abuses. Colin argues that these two theses contradict each other and consequently the position advocated by abortion proponents is absurd. Francis Beckwith Dr Beckwith responds to a shift in the arguments of proponents of abortion. In the past abortion proponents have denied the humanity of the foetus, today many are arguing that despite the humanity of the foetus, abortion is still justified. International law lays down certain human rights which all nations are expected to uphold.