But at least in the American context, I think that Hvistendahl is underestimating how radical and wrenching a departure from the existing abortion-rights framework this kind of shift would be.
On Monday, I fear parliament will play into their hands and vote to make it harder to defend a sensible framework of abortion law that gives women the healthcare they need.
The vice president is using the abortion issue as a framework to cast Mr. Bradley, the former New Jersey senator who is his lone rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, as someone who cannot be counted on to fight -- either for abortion rights or, by implication, other Democratic principles.
"There is undoubtedly overwhelming public support for a legal and medical framework for abortion that would require the repeal of the 8th Amendment," said O'Gorman.
In addition to its problematic portrayal of women's reproductive decision making, this framework renders abortion provision vulnerable to challenge on the basis of claims concerning medical knowledge and practice (Science and Technology Subgroup 1991; Sheldon 1997).
It says it will provide terminations within Northern Ireland's current legal framework - abortions are not illegal but are very strictly controlled.
Without proper consultation or debate, parliament will vote on whether to break up that framework and devolve abortion law to the Scottish parliament.
Their hope, dismissed as wishful thinking by many established leaders of the anti-abortion movement like National Right to Life and the Roman Catholic Church, is that the Supreme Court might be willing to adopt a radical new framework for regulating abortion.
Like the constitutional clauses in Ireland, Brazil and also in the Philippines' Frances Kissling, president of Catholics for a Free Choice AGAINST 'We need to contextualise the fight to defend abortion rights within a moral framework that admits that the death of a foetus is a real death.
Several legal scholars and philosophers have used a gender equality framework to support abortion and reproductive rights [ 4, 5].
