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Paul Linton said pro-lifers need to reckon with the lingering effects of 50 years of abortion on demand, which led to a vast change in thinking in the American populace.
Catholics need to learn lessons from the approval of three amendments Nov. 8 enshrining abortion into their state constitutions, said Paul Benjamin Linton, an Illinois attorney who is an expert in state constitutional law with respect to abortion.
Linton, author of Abortion Under State Constitutions (third edition, Carolina Academic Press), the leading study on how abortion has been treated at the state constitutional level, drew three conclusions from the outcome in California, Michigan and Vermont: Pro-lifers need to study who voted for the amendments and why they did; reckon with the “misleading” characterizations of the amendments; and keep an eye on how state processes can be used to reproduce similar results in the future.
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Catholics need to learn lessons from the approval of three amendments Nov. 8 enshrining abortion into their state constitutions, said Paul Benjamin Linton, an Illinois attorney who is an expert in state constitutional law with respect to abortion.
Linton, author of Abortion Under State Constitutions (third edition, Carolina Academic Press), the leading study on how abortion has been treated at the state constitutional level, drew three conclusions from the outcome in California, Michigan and Vermont: Pro-lifers need to study who voted for the amendments and why they did; reckon with the “misleading” characterizations of the amendments; and keep an eye on how state processes can be used to reproduce similar results in the future.
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Constitutional Scholar Draws Lessons From Abortion Referenda Defeats
Paul Linton said pro-lifers need to reckon with the lingering effects of 50 years of abortion on demand, which led to a vast change in thinking in the American populace.
