The Abortion Struggle in American Politics

Despite opinion polls that consistently show the majority of Americans supporting abortion, the status of legal abortion seems more precarious than ever. Anti-abortionists in Congress are proceeding on two fronts to outlaw abortion altogether: with a constitutional amendment banning abortion and with “Human Life bills” that would declare a fetus to be a “person” so that abortion would become a criminal act. There continue to be successful efforts to limit the scope of ...