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Family

Dec. 20, 2006

Abortion Politics Abolish Key Rights of the Poor

FORUM COLUMN - By David A. Lash - Belief that a woman has the right to choose to have an abortion on demand, or belief that abortion is the murder of an unborn child is sometimes not the point.

David A. Lash

Managing Counsel for Pro Bono and Public Services
O'Melveny & Myers LLP

The opinions expressed here are his own.

Forum Column

By David A. Lash
     
      Belief that a woman has the right to choose to have an abortion on demand, or belief that abortion is the murder of an unborn child is sometimes not the point. Regardless of one's position on the issue, society's decades-old debate regularly ignores the status of low-income women. Poverty that crushes the chance to even engage in the debate creates millions of silent...

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