‘Abortion Talks’: How six women found respect despite disagreement
The Rev. Anne Fowler and Frances Hogan talked about abortion for six years and neither changed their mind. But both saw their lives changed.
The two women were part of what became known as the Abortion Talks. After a gunman killed two women and injured five others at two abortion clinics in Massachusetts in 1994, there was a recognition that rhetoric had passed from toxic to dangerous. So six leaders in the abortion debate – all women, three from each side – agreed to begin talking.
The product was not common ground. If anything, at the end of six years of wrenching conversations, the women were only more committed to their activism. Instead, the product was genuine affection, no small amount of laughter, and a deep understanding of people who before had only been
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