MELBOURNE, Australia – Every woman should have the legal right safely to terminate a pregnancy that she does not wish to continue, at least until the very late stage of pregnancy when the fetus may be sufficiently developed to feel pain.
That has been my firm view since I began thinking about the topic as an undergraduate in the 1960s. None of the extensive reading, writing and debating I have subsequently done on the topic has given me sufficient reason to change my mind.
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