Culture

What to Know When Debating an Abortion Activist

In the year after Roe v. Wade was overturned, researchers estimate that roughly 32,000 babies were born who otherwise would have been aborted. Thirty-two thousand. That's a small city, and it exists because the legal argument finally lost. But the cultural argument hasn't. Abortion is still defended daily, loudly, and usually to an audience that hasn't prepared a response.

By Markella Kyprios4 min read

Abortion may be the most contested issue in American life, and it has been renamed enough times to prove it. It gets defended as reproductive rights and as women's healthcare, but rarely by its own name.