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Courtney's avatar

I found this Caitlin Flanagan essay to be one of the most moving defenses of the "safe, legal, and rare" compromise I've ever read. I feel alienated sometimes from both sides of the debate, and she speaks to the fuzzy middle ground that I want to try to defend even if it lacks a philosophical rigor or consistency: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/12/the-things-we-cant-face/600769/

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Myles Werntz's avatar

At the risk of self-promotion, Dorothy Day’s approach remains challenging for me, in that it rejects the entire legal approach to the question.

Hope it’s helpful: https://comment.org/making-little-of-the-law-and-everything-of-love/

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