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Medical Progress, Social Progress, and Legal Regression

By Andrew Solomon — 2013

Both anti-abortionists and disability activists have sometimes suggested that women should defer to “nature” and have whatever baby they conceive. The bioethicist William Ruddick calls this the “ ‘hospitality’ view of women.” The proposition is that we do not have and should not exercise volition in the making of children; pregnancies are an arranged marriage we are not free to buck.

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Thinking more explicitly about cultural catalysis can help to accomplish in years what otherwise would require decades or not take place at all. As we experiment with cultural catalysis, we need to make it fast and benign rather than fast and pathological for the common good.

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Women’s Well-Being