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New Twists in the Abortion Debate
Readers discuss a threat to women’s rights and a novel interpretation of the 14th Amendment by the religious right.
April 11, 2021
To the Editor:
The pro-life movement has failed to recognize a crucial fact: Abortion has always existed, even where laws ban it. No public censure, legislation or punishment, not even protection of the fetus under the 14th Amendment, would prevent all abortions.
But we do know how to reduce the number of abortions. Comprehensive and accurate sex education and easy access to contraception, including for teenagers, have been proved to reduce abortions. Many abortion opponents resist those programs.

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The anti-abortion movement was never going to stop with overturning Roe v. Wade.
For years, Republicans have argued that their goal was to return the issue of abortion to the states. At no point was this believable; since 1984, the Republican Party platform has called for a constitutional amendment banning abortion. Having spent decades denouncing abortion as a singular moral evil, the anti-abortion movement will not be content to return to a pre-Roe status quo, where abortion was legal in some places but not others.
So it’s not that surprising that, with the possible end of Roe in sight, some opponents of abortion are thinking about how to ban it nationally. Last week my colleague Ross Douthat wrote about a debate within the anti-abortion movement sparked by a highly abstruse article by the Notre Dame professor John Finnis in the Catholic journal First Things. Finnis argues that fetuses are persons under the 14th Amendment, and that the Supreme Court should thus rule abortion unconstitutional. The political implication, wrote Douthat, is that just jettisoning Roe is “woefully insufficient.”

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April 06, 2021 12:35 IST
Composer Osei Essed talks about scoring for Netflix limited series ‘Amend: The Fight For America’, that also features Randall Park, Mahershala Ali and Yara Shahidi
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Composer Osei Essed talks about scoring for Netflix limited series ‘Amend: The Fight For America’, that also features Randall Park, Mahershala Ali and Yara Shahidi
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Amend: The Fight For America arrived on Netflix less than a month after US President Joe Biden’s swearing-in, composer Osei Essed feels the timing was just right given the changing socio-political atmosphere.

Will Smith Says He'll 'Consider' Running For Office 'At Some Point'
The actor said on “Pod Save America" that he's "optimistic" and "hopeful" about the future of the country.
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Will Smith attends the "Bad Boys for Life" photo call at Hotel Villa Magna on Jan. 8, 2020, in Madrid, Spain.
Will Smith 2024?
The 52-year-old actor revealed in a new podcast interview that he would “consider” running for office “at some point.”
“I think for now I’ll let that office get cleaned up a little bit,” Smith told Crooked Media’s “Pod Save America” in an interview released Monday. “And then I’ll consider that at some point down the line. I absolutely have an opinion, I’m optimistic, I’m hopeful, I believe in understanding between people and I believe in the possibility of harmony. I will certainly do my part, whether it remains artistic or, at some point, ventures into the political arena.”