Are Newborns People?

Dennis Byrne, a columnist in the Chicago Tribune , reminds us yet again that the question about abortion has changed for this election. It’s not just a question of whether abortion is permitted in the womb, but whether infanticide is legal when the mother doesn’t want to keep a newborn baby. There is no way a thinking person can get around it. Are newborns people, or not?

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