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The Legal Future of Abortion
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Item Title The Legal Future of Abortion
Guest Pilpel, Harriet F.
Guest Wattleton, Faye
Guest McFadden, J. P.
Host Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925-2008)
Moderator Kinsley, Michael E.
Date CreatedAugust 23, 1989
Description

Earlier in the summer, the Supreme Court, in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, had modified the effective carte blanche for abortion given in Roe v. Wade. Would it go further yet in its next term, in which it had agreed to hear three more abortion cases? This is an exciting though not always coherent show, as the combatants occasionally all talk at once, but light as well as heat is generated. MK: "Are you really prepared for the full legal implications of the position that all fetuses, even two-minute-old fetuses, have every human right that you and I have?" ... WFB: "We're entitled, are we not, to say there has been a certain evolution in moral thought during the past two hundred years? The Declaration of Independence is a morally historic document, and so is the Emancipation Proclamation. And it seems to me that in the past 75 years there was a feeling that not only did the mother have rights, but so did the unborn child."

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Country of Origin
Place RecordedNew York City, New York, United States
DimensionsDuration: 30 minutes
FormatText
Medium television programs
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Color
color
Soundtrack
sound
Hoover IDProgram S0825
Record Number80040.1074
NotesVideo available through special order.
RightsCopyright held by Stanford University. This copy is provided for educational and research purposes only. No publication, further reproduction, or reuse of copies, beyond fair use, may be made without the express written permission of the Hoover Institution Library & Archives on behalf of Stanford University.

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