Teresa Forcades

Activists protest inside the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis July 25 during a special session debate on banning abortion. (CNS/Reuters/Cheney Orr)

Church teaching on the dignity of women changed my mind about criminalizing abortion

I have never doubted the right to life of the fetus. But I now see that also at stake in matters of law and abortion are women's full moral agency and their right to bodily integrity.

Dona Zenilda with the Xucuru people; Ednamar de Oliveira Viana, a leader of the Satere-Mawe people; and Francisco Chagas Chafre de Souza, a leader of the Apurina, all three from Brazil (CNS/Paul Haring)

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