Reading guide for Wendy McElroy’s “The Abortion Debate That Wasn’t”

 

Word process your responses.

 

1.  Create a reference entry for this essay.

 

2.  Why, according to McElroy have pro-choice advocates won the abortion debate?

 

3.  Explain the difference between preserving the peace and preserving virtue.

 

4.  McElroy says, “Morality is a matter of individual conscience, not of law.”  Explain.

 

     Do you agree?  Why?  Or not?

 

5.  Why has the pro-choice movement lost the debate about abortion?

 

6.  Under what standard should McElroy and her physician be executed?

 

7.  What is the thesis of the essay?