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Newspaper
Danville Register
Location
Danville, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1977
Page
9
An article surveys the abortion controversy as a moral issue affecting politicians churches couples physicians and society. It traces history and argues the moral problem centers on whether a fetus deserves personhood and rights beyond a woman's autonomy, noting divided views among philosophers theologians and scientists and the dangers of defining personhood.
Dantel Callahan directs the Institute of Society Ethics and the Life Sciences which he founded in 1965. He served as staff associate at The Population Council and was executive editor of Commonweal magazine from 1961 to 1989. He has been a visiting professor and medical ethics consultant to the AMA Judicial Council. He won the Thomas More Medal for Abortion Law Choice and Morality and Time named him a top young leader in 1974.
A columnist argues that women’s right to choose rests on the moral uncertainty of fetal rights. The author notes that whether the fetus has rights is unknown, and this ambiguity justifies allowing abortion as a decision of personal health and well-being. See ABORTION, Page 6B.
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