{"id":808,"date":"2008-10-02T14:47:03","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T14:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2008\/10\/next-question.html"},"modified":"2008-10-02T14:47:03","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T14:47:03","slug":"next-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2008\/10\/next-question.html","title":{"rendered":"Next question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The discussion of the post below is veering, quite naturally, to the subject of <em>Roe<\/em> and the place of legal restrictions on abortion in the pro-life movement.<br \/>\nSo, we might as well go ahead and go there. I have company drifting in over the next few hours, so I really am not in the proper frame of mind to compose a post, so I&#8217;ll be lazy and just throw this out there:<br \/>\n<em><\/p>\n<ul>\nResolved:<\/ul>\n<p>  The anti-abortion movement should abandon any attempts to overturn Roe v. Wade or even work for legal restrictions on abortion. That battle has been lost. Further, it is not required, from the standpoint of Catholic teaching, to work towards criminalization of or restrictions on abortion.<\/em><br \/>\nDiscuss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The discussion of the post below is veering, quite naturally, to the subject of Roe and the place of legal restrictions on abortion in the pro-life movement. So, we might as well go ahead and go there. 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