WFB essentially acts as moderator on this passionate, provocative show as his

guests explore abortion just two years after Roe v. Wade. Mr. Stevas tells of the

brutalizing effects of the new abortion law in Britain: "Since it has been legalized, it has become surrounded by rackets, and the only post-operative action that anyone takes is to sell the fetuses to soap factories." Mrs. Hentoff is "a little bit irritated that all those who think of themselves as humanists, as always pro-life, see this killing of fetuses as something that fits in with a liberal, humanist, nonviolent philosophy, when in fact it is killing." Mr. O'Rourke agrees that abortion is killing, but argues that "The real way to stop this brutal business of killing is to outlove it, not to outlaw it, because having prohibitory legislation at this point would really reinstitutionalize the killing of mothers."