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Opposition to abortion doesn't stop some Americans from supporting friends and family who seek one

  • Written by Tricia C. Bruce, Sociologist, University of Notre Dame

Maxine, a pseudonym for a 58-year-old woman, is among a sizable proportion of Americans who are morally opposed to abortion.

Republican, Christian and a grandmother, Maxine “can’t believe that anybody could honestly say that life doesn’t begin at conception. … That’s the black and whiteness of it, for me: Either...

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