Yoshie wrote concerning abortion:

> I dare say this has to be at least as interesting + important as value theory.

I think the key is to make sure that the economics relates to real life problems.
I have a different sort of abortion question.  Abortion debates have significantly
weakened the left, bringing a good number of working class people into the
conservative fold.

How much was the abortion issue manufactured?  By that I mean, how much did
organizations frame the question in such a way that dialogue would be impossible
in order to create the divisiveness associated with abortion?

Was it merely that better off women could always arrange for abortions well before
Roe v. Wade that the issue remained on the back burner?

Bill Sokol's wife (Cynthia Golnick???) wrote a book in which she tried to dialogue
with both sides.  Maybe it has some answers.  I sure don't.

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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
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