Challenging Feminist Orthodoxy

By Colleen Carroll Campbell

When Gov. Matt Blunt signed into law new regulations for Missouri abortion clinics this month, the critical response from abortion-rights groups highlighted a hotly contested question in today's abortion debate: Which side cares more about women?

For decades, the feminist establishment has declared the question a no-brainer. The right to abortion is the premier women's right, feminist leaders argue, so support for unfettered abortion access is the litmus test for concern for women. And restrictions on abortion or abortion providers -- such as the new provision in Missouri law that holds abortion clinics to the same health and safety standards as other outpatient surgical centers -- are, by definition, anti-woman. [more]

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