S31E06 Firing Line with William F. Buckley "The Rhetoric of Abortion" Guests: Naomi Wolf, Helen Alvare (National Conference of Catholic Bishops) Taped: 24 January 1996. Air Date: March 17,1996.


Program details: Ms. Wolf had just provoked a firestorm with her essay in The New Republic in which, as Mr. Buckley summarizes it,"she absolutely defends the right of the mother to abort the fetus, but absolutely classifies the act as evil." (Ms. Wolf, in the course of this often profound discussion, qualifies that second "absolutely": "a necessary evil in many cases.") NW: "I am so glad to have the chance to talk with you and with other representatives of the pro-life movement, who, I have to say, I had been raised all my life to demonize and to see as sort of these fanatical misogynists. I have to reckon with the fact that many of the people I have heard from on that side of the divide are thoughtful, ethical people who respect women and who believe that it is of deep moral concern and even deep religious concern to raise the status of women in society."

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