How to Argue About Abortion

Over the course of this year, the centenary of William F. Buckley’s birth, we will republish an article by him weekly. In this column, WFB considers how best to argue in defense of the unborn and the unpleasant necessity of honestly depicting abortion, comparing the pro-life effort to the abolitionist one in terms of righteousness.

There is room for passion in almost every argument, but there is room, too, for dispassion, and those arguments overfreighted with passion tend only to polarize the combatants and tune out those who do not care.