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A Flawed Analogy

PROCHOICE POLITICIANS & THE THIRD REICH

Cathleen Kaveny

As the 2008 presidential election cycle heats up, the political and moral rhetoric about abortion is reaching the boiling point. Some prominent prolife Catholics have compared politicians who support abortion rights to the Nazis, and intimated that Catholics who would vote for such politicians are comparable to citizens of the Third Reich who were indifferent to the plight of (...)


 

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