Abortion and Social Responsibility: Depolarizing the Debate by Laurie Shrage (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona)
Schrage argues that Roe v Wade's regulatory scheme of a six-month time span for abortion on demand polarized the public and obscured alternatives with potentially broader support. She explores the origins of that scheme, then defends an alternate one-with a time span shorter than 6 months for non-therapeutic abortions-that could win broad support needed to make legal abortion services available to all women.