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2/23/2010
Link: http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-abortion-debate24-2010feb24,0,4737094.story?page=1
Los Angeles Times
Abortion debaters have agreed to disagree for 10 years
Each semester at UC Berkeley, Malcolm Potts and Raymond Dennehy engage in a rigorous, but gracious, back and forth. And students get a lesson about the art of argumentation.
By Robin Abcarian
February 23, 2010 | 6:31 p.m.
Reporting from Berkeley - On the afternoon that Malcolm Potts and Raymond Dennehy prepared to debate abortion in a lecture hall filled with UC Berkeley students, a noisy confrontation took shape a few dozen yards away in Sproul Plaza.
The Berkeley chapter of Students for Life had invited an antiabortion group that specializes in traveling photographic displays of bloody fetal parts to erect its provocative images comparing abortion to the Holocaust and lynching.
It didn't take long for an angry counter-demonstration to form around a hastily painted sign: "Abortion providers are heroes. . . . No Christian fascist theocracy."
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