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Church Teaching on the Dignity of Women Changed my Mind About Criminalizing Abortion

David DeCosse, director of religious and Catholic ethics, published in the National Catholic Reporter.

"One change outweighed all others: the inclusion of the full implications of the dignity of women in my moral reflections on the matter. I have never doubted the right to life of the fetus. But two implications of the dignity of women have been especially formative in expanding my understanding of the range of values at stake in matters of law and abortion: women's full moral agency and their right to bodily integrity."

David DeCosse, director of religious and Catholic ethics, published in the National Catholic Reporter.

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