Is a better abortion debate possible?

Abortion “is not an argument anyone is going to win,” Caitlin
Flanagan wrote in a December 2019 essay for The Atlantic. “The
loudest advocates on both sides are terrible representatives for
their cause.” Caitlin is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where she
writes on politics and culture. She identifies as pro-choice. The
hosts of this show identify as pro-life. But all of us yearn for a
debate and conversation about hard issues like aboriton that isn’t
dominated by the vitriol often demonstrated by the “loudest
advocates” that Caitlin refers to. We model that and more in this
week’s show. During Signs of the Times, we discuss the first woman
to be nominated with the right to vote as undersecretary of the
synod of bishops; we also get into the controversy over Abby
Johnson, a popular pro-life speaker and supporter of President
Trump, delivering a speech at the Catholic University of America.
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