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It's Not Too Late To Turn Away From Abortion Maximalism

We were always a nation of pragmatists, not bio-libertarians

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Mary Harrington
Jun 13, 2025
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MPs set to vote on decriminalizing abortion in England – POLITICO

I expect I’ll lose readers in some quarters for saying this, but I am an abortion centrist. A core argument in Feminism Against Progress is that its legalisation created a key plank of the bio-libertarianism that has marginalised mothering in the women’s movement to all our detriment. But in the same book I also argued that given societal changes downst…

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