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Children conceived through rape open new front in abortion culture wars

Adelle M. Banks | Feb 4, 2013

(RNS) Forty years after the Roe v. Wade decision legalized abortion, children who were conceived through rape — and women who were raped and chose to end the pregnancy — are speaking out, opening a new front in the often-fraught discussions of a decades-old culture war.

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