When it comes to public policy on when, if ever, it is acceptable to take a human life, Americans have shown strongly mixed feelings. This timely two-part series seeks to understand this ambivalence and to point the way toward an ethic of life that all Americans can live with. Guests include representatives of the Institute for Integrated Social Analysis, the Family Life/Respect Life Office of the Archdiocese of New York, the Center for Christian-Jewish Understanding, and others. 2-part series, 29 minutes each.

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The Series Includes : In Search of Common Ground: Remaking Public Policy on Human Life Issues | A Matter of Life and Death: The Politics of Abortion and Capital Punishment

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