Abortion as a Jewish Dilemma in Norma Rosen’s At the Center
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Abstract
This article reads Norma Rosen’s 1982 novel At the Center, a novel set in an abortion clinic, as articulating the ethical complexity of abortion for American Jews in the years following abortion legalization. It argues that the novel presents legal abortion as morally complex. Given the harm of dangerous illegal abortion, providing legal abortion makes the world safer. But the fear of abortion becoming illegal again is ever-present. The increased availability of abortion can lead to it being conducted without grappling with the morality of ending a potential life. Jews must also negotiate the probable comparisons of abortion to Nazism. The article first shows how abortion is presented in Rosen’s journalism from the late-1970s before explicating how At the Center presents the central moral issues of abortion through analyzing the novel’s central characters.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it