Writing for the non-profit Divided We Fall, TC’s Peter Coleman suggests a group of Boston women offer a clue to Americans seeking common ground following the U.S. Supreme Court reversal of Roe v. Wade.
“Now is the time to talk,” says Coleman, Professor of Psychology & Education and Director of the Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution.
Peter Coleman, Professor of Psychology and Education, and Director, Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution. (Photo: Columbia University)
Coleman acknowledges no minds have been changed over 25 years of dialogue among Boston pro-choice and anti-abortion advocates. But personal engagement has nonetheless allowed the group to set aside “profound moral differences.”
The interaction has moreover created pathways to understanding the “trade-offs and contradictions inherent in their own positions on abortion.”