The Pluralist Approach

  The recently leaked Supreme Court draft to overturn the 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision has caused a political uproar because the court’s leaning is not in alignment with the opinions of most Americans. A recent poll from Pew Research shows that only about 10% of Americans are anti-abortion hardliners, and that the vast majority of the country has nuanced views on this issue. The pluralistic view is to seek compromise and avoid coercive measures that force one’s own beliefs onto the rest of the population. With the abortion issue, the common ground could be increased access to birth control since studies have shown that this will significantly reduce the number of abortions. But the fact that sacred moral values are nonnegotiable makes it difficult to have this conversation. This is a moral conflict between opposing groups. There is the sanctity of human life for the anti-abortionists (and some that are morally opposed to abortion but still pro-choice because of additional counterba