First Things RSS Feed - Joseph W. Dellapenna https://www.firstthings.com/author/joseph-w-dellapenna en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:55:09 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/joseph-w-dellapenna 60 Recycling the Myths of Abortion History https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2008/08/recycling-the-myths-of-abortio https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2008/08/recycling-the-myths-of-abortio Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400 In April 2006, I published Dispelling the Myths of Abortion History ¯a book that, in the pages of First Things , Michael Uhlmann called the “definitive work” that utterly discredited the history in Justice Harry Blackmun’s majority opinion in Roe v. Wade . Dispelling the Myths of Abortion History was favorably reviewed in a number of other journals, all by reviewers who could be characterized as pro-life, even though some of them noted that I am not pro-life, at least not in the narrow sense of endorsing the view that life begins at conception.

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