NEW YORK, April 5 (C-FAM) Frustrated by the persistence of shame attached to
abortion, international abortion activists are employing stealth methods to
recruit and train abortionists while scholars are attempting to stigmatize
healthcare providers' right to object on grounds of conscience.
"Abortion stigma is affected both by legislative initiatives that establish
fetal personhood and gestational age limits and by discourses that influence
cultural values," write Dr. Allison Norris and her colleagues in a Women's
Health Issues article. "By constructing the fetus as a person and abortion as
murder, anti-abortion forces argue that women or providers - or both - should be
seen as murderers." Read
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