A long wait.In her column "Regulating Abortion" (May 4), Cathleen Cathleen sells her soul to the devil in exchange for the souls of starving Irish peasants. [Irish Drama: Yeats Countess Cathleen in Benét, 228] See : Devil Kaveny asks, "Are we in for another thirty years of abortion wars?" The abortion wars will continue for the next several centuries and even beyond. Why? Prochoicers have been unable to bring this debate to an end because they have been unable to persuade an overwhelming majority of Americans that abortion is just another medical procedure that simply removes an unwanted, meaningless blob of tissue from the mother's womb womb n. See uterus. womb uterus. . As long as many people continue to believe that abortion destroys an innocent human life, there will be demands for government to restrict or ban abortion. Are we to believe the claims of the prochoice lobby that the overwhelming majority of Americans are prochoice, and that only a tiny band of vocal fanatics are keeping this issue alive? If this were true, prochoicers would not have to rely on the courts in order to get their way. I should add that as long as abortion (legal or illegal) remains a quick, easy, and cheap way to get rid of an unwanted problem, it will continue to appeal to both women and men. Those who wish that the abortion issue would just go away are in for a long wait. DIMITRI Dimitri may refer to:
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