The following is from an interview with Molly Yard, then president of the National Organization for Women:
Q: When a public opinion poll asks, “Is it a woman’s right to choose abortion?” Approximately 67% of Americans say yes. Yet, if the same group is asked, “Is abortion murder?” The same percentage says yes. Why is that?
A: I think it depends entirely on how you ask the question. When you put it in terms of individual rights, people come down on the side of the individual and against the government.
That’s what they’re really saying, that it’s a woman’s right and it’s not the business of the government interfere. They may think it’s murder, but they also don’t think the government should interfere in somebody’s life.
“Voices of the Abortion Debate” New Dimensions, 1990
Is murder a woman’s right?
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