Detailed view for the Book: Life Itself: Abortion in the American Mind

Title:

Life Itself: Abortion in the American Mind
 

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Genres:

Ethics and Morality
Politics

Editions:

# Date Publisher Binding Cover
1 1992-02-25 Random House  

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Blurb: 
In Life Itself, Roger Rosenblatt redefines the debate on abortion and offers a resolution. Through columns in leading publications and his on-air essays for The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, Rosenblatt has become widely recognized as American"s preminent commentator on social and moral issues. In this book, he turns to the most bitterly divisive social question of our time. "Give abortion five seconds of thought and it quickly spirals down in the mind to the most basic questions about human life, to the mysteries of birth and our relationship with our souls," he writes. "It is difficult to disentangle, much less express, the feelings it engenders." Yet what we have seen in this country over the past twenty years has been the political warfare of extremists, not honest discussion among ordinary citizens with differing views.